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It's the 10% Happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, how we doing everybody? It's a new year. We're right in the heart of

resolution season, and the most common resolutions tend to be related to health and fitness. So today, we've got a Buddhist

take on food. Not so much what you eat, but how you eat. To be very clear about this,

this episode is not about wrenching your body into some sort of arbitrary aesthetic shape that may have nothing to do with your underlying health. This is not about getting you to look like your favorite Instagram influencer. Instead, this is about rewiring your relationship to food and to your body. And let me say to the dudes listening, you may think of this as a female issue, but it is not. We just tend to mask our dysregulated thinking around food and body. And let me say to the dudes listening, you may think of this as a female issue, but it is not.

We just tend to mask our dysregulated thinking around food and body image as biohacking.

Anyway, today we're talking about mindful eating, which the research suggests can reduce overeating and improve digestion, blood sugar regulation, and gut-brain communication.

My guest is Brother Foplu, who's an ordained monk in the Plum Village tradition,

which was started by the great Zen master Ticknath-Han.

Brother Fap-Blu has edited several of Tick-Nat-Han's many books,

and he also works a lot with young people. In fact,

Brother Frop Blue has been working lately with scientists at both Dartmouth and Harvard to develop

research on the effect of mindfulness practices on children. That, though, is a subject for

another time. Today we're talking about mindful eating. We are covering such topics as the health

benefits of mindful eating, the line between moderation and

restriction, the importance of eating with other people, the five contemplations before eating,

the basic steps of mindful eating, how to ensure that mindful eating doesn't feel like a chore or

burden, fasting and our culture's dysregulated relationship to food, mindful consumption in

general, a list called the four nutriments, and much more. Just to say this is the second episode

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