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CM 027: Bee Wilson on How We Learn to Eat
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Mar 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Why do we love certain foods? What role do families and memories play in our tastes? How can we help our children to eat well and wisely? While we may think our food preferences are innate, most are learned when we are young. And that also means we can change our preferences if we choose.
In her bestselling book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, Bee Wilson helps us rethink everything we thought we knew about eating. Bee is the author of four books, a writer for The Guardian & the London Review of Books, and the BBC Radio Food Writer of the Year.
In this episode, we talk about:
how our food likes and dislikes are less about biology and more about learned habits
whether children know instinctively how to eat healthy foods
how our home environment shapes our preferences
why children reject new foods and how to get them to eat a wide variety
the fascinating role of schools in influencing our eating habits
how to change the types of foods that we like
the role that gender plays in the formation of eating habits
choices Japan made to change its eating patterns
how we often overlook the single biggest influence on our eating habits
Bee also speculates on how our healthcare systems could improve our health and save billions of dollars by teaching how to eat.
Selected Links to Topics Mentioned
@KitchenBee
Bee Wilson
Consider the Fork
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Clara Davis
Supertasters
Food neophobia
Lucy Cook
Tiny Tastes
Keith Williams and Tiny Tastes
Karl Duncker
Julie Mennella
Bulimia
Anorexia
Eating in Post-War Japan
If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
LinkedIn
@GAllenTC
In her bestselling book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, Bee Wilson helps us rethink everything we thought we knew about eating. Bee is the author of four books, a writer for The Guardian & the London Review of Books, and the BBC Radio Food Writer of the Year.
In this episode, we talk about:
how our food likes and dislikes are less about biology and more about learned habits
whether children know instinctively how to eat healthy foods
how our home environment shapes our preferences
why children reject new foods and how to get them to eat a wide variety
the fascinating role of schools in influencing our eating habits
how to change the types of foods that we like
the role that gender plays in the formation of eating habits
choices Japan made to change its eating patterns
how we often overlook the single biggest influence on our eating habits
Bee also speculates on how our healthcare systems could improve our health and save billions of dollars by teaching how to eat.
Selected Links to Topics Mentioned
@KitchenBee
Bee Wilson
Consider the Fork
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Clara Davis
Supertasters
Food neophobia
Lucy Cook
Tiny Tastes
Keith Williams and Tiny Tastes
Karl Duncker
Julie Mennella
Bulimia
Anorexia
Eating in Post-War Japan
If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
@GAllenTC
Released:
Mar 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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