The Over 50 Health & Wellness Podcast
Jun 10, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
Text us a comment or question! Have you ever finished a bag of chips, a sleeve of cookies, or a giant bowl of cereal and thought, **"What is wrong…
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Have you ever demolished a giant bag of potato chips and thought, "What is wrong with me?" Or maybe you crushed a half a sleeve of cookies, or you just destroyed a dessert minutes after finishing a meal that should have left you stuffed, and then you wondered, "Uh, why am I still hungry?" Because if you ever felt that way, I got some news for you here.
They are working on getting you to take one more bite, one more handful, one more sip, one more snack.
Because if these big, ginormous food companies can get millions of people to consume just a little bit more, the profits become enormous.
Now, before anybody accuses me of wearing my tinfoil hat again, I just want you to hear me out.
The food industry makes money when people eat, right? That's obvious, but more importantly, it makes money when people eat more.
Nobody at these big, ginormous major food companies are getting bonuses because customers leave feeling satisfied and stop buying their products.
They get rewarded when consumption goes up, when customers come back for more, when they get repeat customers.
And that's where things get really interesting because if you've struggled with cravings, if you've struggled with portion control, if you've struggled to lose weight, if you've, if you've struggled with food noise, or if you've ever felt like food has way too much power over you, there might be a reason.
She wasn't walking through a grocery store with 37 different varieties of cheese crackers competing for her attention.
She wasn't being bombarded by food advertisements every time she opened her phone.
She wasn't surrounded by products engineered by teams of PhD chemists whose job it was to make food as irresistible as humanly possible, but you and I are.
And we're spending trillions of dollars trying to solve a problem that might have been created by the food environment itself.
So today, what I wanna do is I wanna pull back the curtain on the modern food industry.
We're gonna talk about why you're hungry all the time, why cravings feel so powerful, why ultra-processed foods seem impossible to resist, and most importantly, how to become the kind of person the food industry hates.
Have you ever demolished a giant bag of potato chips and thought, "What is wrong with me?" Or maybe you crushed a half a sleeve of cookies, or you just destroyed a dessert minutes after finishing a meal that should have left you stuffed, and then you wondered, "Uh, why am I still hungry?" Because if you ever felt that way, I got some news for you here.
They are working on getting you to take one more bite, one more handful, one more sip, one more snack.
Because if these big, ginormous food companies can get millions of people to consume just a little bit more, the profits become enormous.
Now, before anybody accuses me of wearing my tinfoil hat again, I just want you to hear me out.
The food industry makes money when people eat, right? That's obvious, but more importantly, it makes money when people eat more.
Nobody at these big, ginormous major food companies are getting bonuses because customers leave feeling satisfied and stop buying their products.
They get rewarded when consumption goes up, when customers come back for more, when they get repeat customers.
And that's where things get really interesting because if you've struggled with cravings, if you've struggled with portion control, if you've struggled to lose weight, if you've, if you've struggled with food noise, or if you've ever felt like food has way too much power over you, there might be a reason.
She wasn't walking through a grocery store with 37 different varieties of cheese crackers competing for her attention.
She wasn't being bombarded by food advertisements every time she opened her phone.
She wasn't surrounded by products engineered by teams of PhD chemists whose job it was to make food as irresistible as humanly possible, but you and I are.
And we're spending trillions of dollars trying to solve a problem that might have been created by the food environment itself.
So today, what I wanna do is I wanna pull back the curtain on the modern food industry.
We're gonna talk about why you're hungry all the time, why cravings feel so powerful, why ultra-processed foods seem impossible to resist, and most importantly, how to become the kind of person the food industry hates.
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