What You Need to Know to Craft the Perfect Diet for You

Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond

There's more to food than just calories and macros. Figure out how to pick the best diet for you, and how to get ahead of the next big thing.
There are a lot of factors that go into understanding the perfect diet! From social to geographical, economic to cultural, join Dr. James Mohebali as he explores some of these considerations, and helps you understand how to sift through all the contradictory information that's out there about diet. On the way, we take a look at why Italians love tomatoes, how to deal with damp, muggy climates, and whether or not Mexicans are immune to hot chili peppers. Using Feng Shui, terroir, and cultural archeology, we look at some popular diets, like the ketogenic diet, and try to understand what role they can play in healing our chronic diseases and proactively maintaining our health.
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Prior "Classic of Difficulties" Episode on "What is the Ideal Diet?"

Excellent Cookbooks to Help Your Search for a Culturally Rooted Cuisine
Fuchsia Dunlop's "Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking"
Fuchsia Dunlop's "The Food of Sichuan"
Fuchsia Dunlop's "Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province"
Fuchsia Dunlop's "Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China"
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's "Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking"
Najmieh Batmanglij's "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies"
Najmieh Batmanglij's "Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes & Kitchen Secrets"
Najmieh Batmanglij's "Joon: Persian Cooking Made Simple"

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"Let Yourself Be Huge" - Cloudkicker (under Creative Commons License)

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Bölümler

1. What You Need to Know to Craft the Perfect Diet for You (00:00:00)

2. Being Keto at a Party (00:02:30)

3. Social Component to Food in Chronic Disease (00:06:07)

4. Geographical & Climate Considerations with Food (00:08:12)

5. Nature Provides What We Need (00:10:45)

6. The Science of Feng Shui (00:13:31)

7. Feng Shui as Medicine (00:16:20)

8. Economic Obstacles to Healthy Diet (00:18:19)

9. Balanced Diet vs. Therapeutic Diet (00:19:38)

10. Balanced Vs. Imbalanced Plants (00:21:50)

11. Comfort Food in Different Cultures (00:24:34)

12. Are Mexicans Immune to Hot Peppers? (00:25:38)

13. Mexican Drug Cartels vs. British Drug Cartels (00:26:23)

14. A Culture's Diet as Treating a Shared Genetic Problem (00:27:40)

15. A Culture's Diet as Adaptation to a Geographical Region (00:29:47)

16. You Are What You Eat, Literally (00:33:34)

17. How Your Small Intestine Proves You Are What You Eat (00:35:10)

18. The Modern Age and Food: We Have a Choice (00:37:12)

19. An Experiment For You To Try At Home (00:38:31)

20. The Importance of Cuisine and Culture (00:40:15)

21. Outro (00:43:13)