Michael Pollan

We've been taught to eat until you're full.

But if you look at like the French language, what we say to our kids, are you full?

Whereas in France, they say, are you satisfied?

And that's such a different point in the process.

Science is one way of understanding food and culture is another.

And there is a lot of wisdom there we're not taking advantage of.

Ultra processed food, you alluded to this, we take in a lot of calories quickly and almost too quickly for the satiety symptoms or method to catch up with it if you eat really fast.

And so slowing down your eating and going back to something you said about coffee.

Keep in mind the first bite is the most delicious and savor that first bite.

And as you eat more and more, the pleasure declines.

So linger with that first few bites and enjoy that.

And the slower you eat, the more time there is for your body to catch up with what you're doing and send you that satiety signal.

Yeah, I think that is true.

I think it's been engineered to be like instantly appealing.

And a lot of that is, as you said, sugar, fat and salt.

And there is this immediate gratification.

But of course, we don't stop.

We keep eating it.

And it's been engineered for what the food marketers call craveability.

Craveability.