Why Can't I Stop Thinking About Food? - Your 20 Minute Listen

From grandma’s kitchen to Ozempic - how eating got so complicated.

This condensed version of the full-length documentary unpacks the surprising history behind food confusion, the tricks used by the diet and processed food industries, and what GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic really mean for the way we eat.

💡 In this quick listen, you’ll learn:

• The surprising moment eating stopped being simple

• How “healthy” food marketing rewired your appetite

• The one thing food companies can’t sell you (and why it’s the answer)

📖 Chapter Timestamps:
00:00 Why food feels confusing now
02:00 The moment diet culture took over family meals
06:00 How processed food became addictive by design
11:00 The wellness halo and misleading “healthy” marketing
14:30 The Ozempic question
17:00 Why listening to your body is the radical act food companies can’t monetise

🎧 Featuring:

🔬 Prof Marion Nestle on how food companies shape what we believe about health → foodpolitics.com

📚 Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat & Hooked

🧠 Christy Harrison, dietitian and journalist behind Anti-Diet & The Wellness Trap

💉 Dr Nick Fuller from Interval Weight Loss on how GLP-1s like Ozempic actually work

📖 Dr Lauren Samuelsson, food historian, on how The Women’s Weekly shaped modern diet culture → UOW profile

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If you’ve ever felt confused about food, struggled to trust your appetite, or wondered why eating feels so fraught, this one’s for you.

💌 Related episodes:

• Ditch Food Guilt with Dr Emma Beckett

• Raising Kids with a Healthy Relationship with Food (even if you don't have one) with Leslie Schilling

• The Secret to Motivation & Exercise with Leah Barron

• Ditch the Diet & Become the Healthiest You EVER
  
  
• How to Empower Your Kids with Body Neutrality with Taryn Brumfitt

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