Heather Aardema explains how mindfulness helps you eat better by resisting food industry tricks like engineered "bliss points" and heavily processed "Frankenfoods." She recommends choosing whole foods without labels and watching for Dr. Mark Hyman's "FLC syndrome" to notice when your body feels better.
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Hi, everybody. Welcome to today's Boost. The food industry does not want us to know what it's doing. It does not want us to know that it is deliberately designing foods to be addictive. It wants us to stay on autopilot, keep eating chips, keep drinking pop, and not even thinking twice about it. Have you heard of the bliss points? Food companies are hiring food scientists to create foods or Frankenfoods that meet certain standards. These standards are that the food has to create some kind of addictive behavior and some kind of repetitive action. Think chips. What do you do with this knowledge? Well, you can become more mindful when you're at the grocery, grocery store, what do you have in your cart? Is it a lot of food that comes with labels and barcodes, or is it food that doesn't come with those things like vegetables and fruits and proteins? Another thing to be aware of is that the more a food is advertised or the more dollars are behind a certain food, the worse it probably is for you. Have you heard of FLC syndrome? Feel like crap? I didn't come up with it. Dr. Mark Hyman did. But I love it, so I use it. Usually we don't realize how bad we feel until we start to feel really, really good. So we are close to the end of the boost. Would you like it to have an even larger impact on your life? Do you feel like you need to kind of get back on track? Well, go back to day one and look at that video and then pull up your vision or create a vision. If you never did pull up your manifesto or create that if you didn't, and pull up your character strengths, look at those documents and they will give you the direction to go in so that you can get the biggest boost possible in this experience.
