Learn everything about what is not food and discover ways to begin avoiding fake foods. We arm our listeners this week with defenses against poor decision making by talking about the inner mechanisms behind why harmful food products exist. We discuss why we have such a hard time breaking free of fake food in our efforts to live healthfully, and reveal how we have come to be raised in a world where children are often conditioned to be emotionally attached to harmful food choices for reasons you may not expect.This episode is also a big tease! - you’ll hear us discussing the whole time how we are supposed to be building up to describing what food is, but in reality we spent so long covering what isn’t food that we decided it should stand on its own merit, and now we have a 4 part series in the making! This is our most important conversation to date on the show, and its dense with information and perspectives on nutrition you aren’t likely to find anywhere else - so don’t miss it!!Time Markers:@start - 12:21 - Introductions, and defining your dreams by knowing your nightmares@12:21 - 29:41 Why we should care about what we eat and where its from - Cellular Membrane Integrity, Gut Health, and Food as Environmental Information@29:41 - 40:10 The Pitfalls of Diet Idolatry - How our needs constantly change on an individual and seasonal basis@40:10 - 48:02 Why we should care about how to define food@48:02 - 57:24 More Variety! Real food means cooking your own, and that means fostering creativity, curiosity, and excitement in your life@57:24 - 1:05:37 We don’t know how we feel until we have something to compare to our baseline@1:05:37 - 1:43:18 What Food Isn’t, why its last in our budgets, and what cooking in low socioeconomic groups used to look like@1:43:18 - End: On what’s to come in this most important series on food