Dr. Jason Fung

You're just eating, eating, eating, but you're actually not even paying attention to what you're eating, right?

So mindfulness is a very important thing.

But those sort of social conventions that are in place in those other countries,

They get lost by the time you come to America because, of course, you come here and everybody's like, eat whatever you want.

Just watch your calories, right?

Eat whenever you want.

Eat however you want.

You know, all of that sort of stuff that forms a sort of scaffold of a natural, your normal eating day, if you will.

Get lost.

Like all this snacking, like you don't see it in other cultures.

Like nobody else thinks we should be snacking like constantly, constantly.

Not like, you know, North Americans.

And that's going to play a role because nobody else is snacking.

You're not snacking either.

And I give an example in the book that, hey, consider this.

In the 1970s, if you were going to a meeting in a boardroom or something, right?

And you're really bored.

Well, too bad.

You just sit there.

Well, what if now somebody in the 2020s puts a plate of cookies in front of you?