Most Replayed Moment: Is Milk Healthy? The Truth About Dairy, Sugar, Fruit And Fasting
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I got told the other day, which helped me understand myself, I got told that when we're hungry, especially when it's sort of like late at night, the logical center of our brain, like the prefrontal cortex, is less active and the amygdala, the sort of emotional part of our brain that wants the dopamine, is much more active. And it helped me to understand why maybe late at night, if I haven't planned my food... I'm much more susceptible to make a bad food choice that I then regret. I'm much more acceptable to lean in for sugar or something that's like super high in carbs or whatever. That really helped me. And this is why the planning thing makes a lot of sense because I can use my prefrontal cortex, my logic center of my brain to make the food choice in the morning so that I don't find myself making a mistake.
It's so important, Stephen, because people have to understand that willpower... is not the answer. You cannot use willpower to control your food behavior. It's part of your ancestral evolutionary limbic reptile dinosaur brain. And so when your blood sugar drops, You're going to eat whatever's in front of you. If there's a vending machine, if there's a donut, if it's cookies, it doesn't matter. Even if you know better, and I've experienced this, you're just going to eat whatever because it's a life-threatening emergency. Your body doesn't know that there's grocery stores and restaurants. It means you're going to go out and try to hunt and gather and do something. It's like an emergency. So when you have that food emergency and you don't have the right food on you,
You're in trouble.
I have that all the time. I have this constant fight with myself where this one voice is like, do the fucking right thing. And then this other part of my brain is like, just today, break the rule. But obviously that voice is louder sometimes than others. And typically late at night, it's louder. Sleep deprivation. Stress.
Stress, sleep deprivation, all that increases your appetite, it increases cortisol, it increases... ghrelin, which is a hunger hormone. You can take young, healthy college kids and sleep-deprive them, and they're going to crave carbs, they're going to crave sugar, and they're going to gain weight.
It's not rocket science.
Why does willpower fail when it comes to food choices?
What about for someone that doesn't have any money at all, so they don't have the ability to... a lot of the privileges that me and you have, what are some of the very basics that they should be thinking about in order to remain healthy in a world where every convenience store is trying to sell you something cheap and sugary?
Yeah, it's a really good question. I think the economics of being healthy is a problem. And we know that there's a huge disparity in health. But it's not only economic, it's education. You know, I met with a woman who was the doctor at a clinic in Bed-Stuyvesant, which is in Brooklyn. It's a very underserved area and in a very low socioeconomic status group, very unhealthy. And she said, you know, Mark, do you know the number one predictor of health? Is it money? No, it's education. So even people who are are wealthy but haven't been educated still have issues so for me it was really about education and so people can be educated to do the right thing and it doesn't have to be expensive and i was part of this film 10 years ago called fed up that looked at childhood obesity in our food system and the advent of sugar and marketing and processed foods and we we visit a lot of families and i work with a family in north carolina south carolina and easily it's one of the poorest areas in america
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