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Nutrition and mental health: Exploring the surprising science of food and emotion

Life Examined

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The Most Powerful Thing About American Processed Foods

The food industry has created products that are hugely packed, densely packed with calories. We're unable to tell the difference between junk calories and good calories on a basic kind of instinctual level. During the pandemic, we went into the grocery stores driven by the emotion of fear and angst. And that caused us to turn to eating junk stuff that we hadn't had since we were kids.

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