E041 What's Wrong with your Diet?

Passionately Wrong Podcast Episode E041

What’s Wrong With Your Diet?

Key takeaway: When it comes to diet, there are more things that seem not to work than are obviously useful. Randy and James discuss various approaches, including restricted calories, increased activity, intermittent fasting, and plant-based diets. 

Topics covered in this video: 

• Why diet (how we keep ourselves fed, including what and when we eat) is so important
• Randy’s experience with eating in the military
• Quality of food, quantity of food, and activity levels
• Intermittent fasting - eat what you want for up to 8 hours, and don’t eat for 16 hours
• Coffee, tea, caffeine
• To snack or not to snack
• Calorie restriction vs. frequent meals vs. intermittent fasting
• Randy’s military-induced weight loss episodes
• Keeping active is key, no matter what one eats
• Randy’s long battle with cholesterol and the methods he experimented with to control it
• Veganism and cholesterol and … allergies to cats?
• Vegan myths - protein

Resources in this video

How Not to Die, Michael Greger

In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan