cooking skills

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Research has shown that the simple habit of sitting down for a meal with loved ones on a consistent basis can directly improve our food choices, reduce the negative effects of stress, and even improve our body composition. It’s not just what we eat, but how we eat, and with whom we’re eating that can make all the difference in the world. 

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to my good friend, Shawn Stevenson, about why family meals are now on the “endangered” list, what we can do to bring them back, and the power of food to bring families and communities together.

Shawn Stevenson is the author of the USA Today National bestseller Eat Smarter and the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter. He’s also the creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the number #1 health podcast in the U.S. with millions of listener downloads each month. A graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology, and nutritional science and became the cofounder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance. Shawn has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle & Fitness, ABC News, ESPN, and many other major media outlets.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• How our social connections determine our health (4:17 / 2:44)
• Research findings on families who eat together (10:16 / 5:53) 
• How culture influences our cravings and choices (17:15 / 15:11) 
• The prevalance of ultra-processed food in children’s diets (24:15 / 22:37)  
• The disconnect in understanding how food affects our biology (32:03 / 28:20) 
• Shawn’s journey away from primarily eating fast food and ultra-processed food (36:52 / 33:51) 
• Research findings about eating alone (53:39 / 49:15) 
• Environmental toxins in popular cookware and safer cookware options (56:18 / 52:20) 
• How to implement family meals (1:03:25 / 59:20) 
• Defining family beyond the traditional nuclear family (1:10:31 / 1:05:30) 

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The recent debt ceiling deal expanded work requirements for government welfare programs. Those rules have a long and complicated history. Today, we’re sharing another episode from our sister podcast, The Uncertain Hour, and getting smarter about how those rules came into being and what they mean for people looking for help. You can binge the full season of The Uncertain Hour here.

What would you teach a student about money?

It’s almost time for a fresh year of students to start university and as they find their feet with new friends and a new way of studying they will also face another challenge – being in charge of their financial life.

But we don’t have to send them off ill-equipped to deal with that, a few helpful tips can stop students ending up down to their last few pounds before the clocks even change.

And as well as offering guidance, it’s perhaps even more useful to tell students about where you went wrong with money at university, or in your younger life.

On this week’s podcast Simon Lambert and Georgie Frost have some helpful advice for students and a few candid tales of the money mistakes they made.

Also, on this week’s show, we discuss child trust funds and how the free money dished out to children has often been lost track of but could be a nice little windfall.

And we put Help to Buy under the microscope. Asking whether it will be tweaked, ditched, or the new build property market is so hooked on this subsidy that we can’t get rid of it?