This podcast is all about creating a digital diet with our screen time and media consumption in order to maintain our physical and mental health. Topics include:

• A rant about Jersey Shore.
• How we're all addicted to screen time in one way or another. 
• How the media we consume affects who we are and how we think and behave, whether we want it to or not.
• How anything that you're exposed to excessively or repetitively will wire itself into your brain.
• Then I introduce the idea that screen time addiction (and we're all addicted) operates in the exact same way that narcotics operate. When you break it down to nuts and bolts it fits the bill of a drug. 
• I talk about the various rationalizations we make to justify our addictions.
• Then we get into what to do about it. We can't eliminate screen time entirely. We wouldn't even want to. It's fun and enjoyable and we shouldn't deprive ourselves. But there's a fine line between enjoying ourselves and being addicted.
• And the answer is a digital diet. We treat media like foods we consume, which all exist on a spectrum of good choices neutral choices, and bad choices. And you know instinctively which of your media choices falls where. And we treat it all like a diet. Limit junk food, fast occasionally, binge every now and again. Use the diet framework to manage your screen time.
• Then I address why this is necessary for your health. All the diet and exercise in the world won't keep you healthy if you have excessive screen time. There's just too many detrimental physical and mental effects. 
• Then we get into this week's Call-to-Action. This week we assess our digital diet and see where we can improve. Can we reduce junk food? Frequency of eating? Amount we consume at once? What positive steps can we take? 
• Then I challenge the listeners to go one entire day with zero screen time. No TV, no internet, no phone, no calls, no texts, no emails, nothing. See if you can do it. You'll learn more about your addiction in one day of abstinence than you would in a lifetime of rationalization.
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