Eating Wisdom with Andrew Weil, M.D.

Program Description

One of life’s greatest pleasures is eating, according to Weil, who cuts through the national obsession with diet and weight like a knife through an overripe papaya. He points out the dark side of fad diets and unhealthy eating patterns while giving us life-enhancing and pleasurable eating options. Arguably the best known physician in the United States, Dr. Andrew Weil believes there “doesn’t have to be a distinction between healthy food and pleasurable food.” His sensible advice stems from a belief in a natural, balanced approach to health and healing. “Food is a major connection between people—the act of sharing food is a fundamental human bond. If you go on a diet that separates you from other people or from your culture, you are sabotaging one of the very functions of eating,” says Weil. Discover the latest findings on nutrition and healthy living with one of the most successful early point riders of alternative and integrative medicine in the world today. (hosted by Michael Toms)

BIO

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Andrew Weil is clinical professor of medicine and director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He writes “Self Healing”, a monthly newsletter, and is the author of many books.

He’s the author of:

•  Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Embrace Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself  (Ballantine Books 2000)
•  Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power (Knopf 2006)
•  Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being (Knopf 2005)
•  Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (Hudson Street 2009)
•  Spontaneous Happiness: A New Path to Emotional Well-Being (Little, Brown and Company, Reprint edition 2013)
•  True Food: Seasonal, Sustainable, Simple, Pure (with co-authors, Sam Fox & Michael Stebner) (Little, Brown and Company 2012)

To learn more about the work of Andrew Weil go to www.drweil.com.

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• Simple ways you can become more healthy
• The positive side on fats and sugar
• The psychology behind how we eat
• Why the benefits of omega-three fatty acids can’t be overestimated
• A true miracle of nature: the African miracle berry
• Why most diets do not work
• What the “Western diet” is doing to “Eastern” health
• Some interesting options for the health-care crisis
• The future of “energy” medicine
• The increasing acceptance and respect for alternative, integrative and intuitive medicine

Host: Michael Toms            Interview Date: 3/9/2000          Program Number: 2812