How to Keep Your Mind From Hacking, With Robert Lustig
Dr. Robert Lustig joined us in the studio to talk about his new book , Hacking the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Hijacking of Our Body and Brain. Dr. Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist who is also the author of Fat Chance: Superiority Over Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease . He tells us about how corporate interests keep us addicted to pleasure and how our addictions have robbed us of our happiness.
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What we discussed:
- Dr. Lustig’s viral video lecture: “Sugar: the bitter truth”
- Difference between happiness and pleasure and why it matters
- The history of the word “hack”
- The Difference Between Marketing and Promotion (And Why It Matters)
- Sam Harris and His Research, Neural Correlates of Religious and Non-Religious Beliefs
- Former Google Product Manager Tristan Harris and his 60-minute interview on how our phones are built to keep us addicted
- Tristan Harris at PBS Newshour
- In Defense of Food , Michael Pollan (here’s themovie )
- Harvey Kellogg and the invention of cereal
- Bran raisins vices
- How the food industry manipulates us
- Why kids should never sleep with mobile devices in their room
- How to increase serotonin levels
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