Are donuts better for you than protein bars? Deception and lies run rampant throughout reality, especially in the world of man-made things like food, medicine, and technology. Yet so also does honesty. Even unhealthy things like cupcakes and candy can have the boldness, confidence, and shamelessness to own who they are and not pretend they're good for you.

A new theory of nutrition and consumption is proposed in this episode:
The best things for you are not always necessarily the "healthiest" things, but the least deceptive ones. That's because our ideas about what is healthy are always changing. Heroin, cigarettes, fat-free, and sugar-free foods used to be considered healthy. What new health craze of today might be the next heroin?  

When products are honest, we often end up eating less of them, and our relationship with them is overall healthier. When they are dishonest, or in the grey zone, it's easy to trust them too much, leading to overconsumption and often sickness and death.

The best overall strategy is to consume things that come directly from nature. They tend to be the least able to disguise themselves, and therefore are the most honest and trustworthy. The risk of deception still does exist, though it is much lower. It is the new, corporation-designed, man-made items that you must be most skeptical toward.

Listen to discover a new perspective on what it means for something to be healthy.