This year, the UK implemented a law requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus. Where did these policies come from? What impact do they have? And why is a Julia Roberts quote from 1990 the best way to describe them?

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• Calorie Labelling Regulations - GOV.UK
• Calorie labelling: implementation guidance - GOV.UK
• Do Menu Calorie Counts Actually Change How We Eat?
• Calorie counts on menus: What's the real impact on diners and restaurants?
• Court Upholds the City's Rule Requiring Some Restaurants to Post Calorie Counts
• Menu Labeling | Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Menu Labeling Requirements | FDA
• Calorie Labeling And Food Choices: A First Look At The Effects On Low-Income People In New York City
• The influence of calorie labeling on food orders and consumption: A review of the literature - PMC
• Changes in Calorie Content of Menu Items at Large Chain Restaurants After Implementation of Calorie Labels
• Why Listing Calorie Counts on Menus Can Do More Harm Than Good

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Weight loss is as simple as “calories in, calories out,” right? Or — gasp — could the reply guys be wrong!? This week, we dig in on the surprisingly complex science behind a seemingly simple calculation.

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• History of the Calorie in Nutrition
• Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight
• The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
• Why the most popular rule of weight loss is completely wrong
• Time to Correctly Predict the Amount of Weight Loss With Dieting
• Mysteries of Weight Loss
• The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out
• “Calories in, calories out” and macronutrient intake
• Olympians owe gold standard to a 19th-century chemist
• Calories on food packets are wrong—it’s time to change that
• Why Does the FDA Recommend 2,000 Calories Per Day?
• Who Actually Needs a 2,000 Calorie a Day Diet?
• The Nutrition Facts Label: Its History and Updates

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This week, Mike and Aubrey take on a manual for creep behavior masquerading as a diet book. Along the way, we cover shopping guides, journalism salaries and the proper preparation of Cornish game hens. We love our curvy husbands.

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• How to Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man by Kalter, Suzy: (1984) | The Book Store 
• Suzy Kalter Gershman Obituary
• The book cover

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Debunking some of the most widely repeated myths about fat and health.

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How a liberal journalist entrenched a libertarian fantasy.

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• Julie Guthman's "Weighing In" 
• Rachel Laudan's "Cooking and Empire"
• Heidi Zimmerman's "Caring for the Middle Class Soul"
• Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth
• Chris Newman’s Blog
• Everything I Want to Do Is Racist: How America’s favorite farmer lost his way.
• Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
• The USA lags behind other agricultural nations in banning harmful pesticides
• Governing food: Media, politics and pleasure
• Michael Pollan's Misguided Food Nostalgia 
• A Plea for Culinary Modernism
• The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism
• The Dark Side of Local 

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This week's show is still in the oven so we're releasing one of our first Patreon bonus episodes. We asked our listeners for the wildest and wackiest fad diets they've ever tried and ended up doing mini-deep dives into The Rotation Diet, The Shangri-La Diet, The Special K Diet, Bethenny Frankel's "Naturally Thin" plan and the Blood Type Diet. Enjoy, and see you next week!  

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In 2019, Jordan Peterson disappeared from public life. One year later, he re-emerged with a diagnosis, a story and no self-reflection whatsoever.

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• Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson
• Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson
• When Your Psychologist Goes Viral: How Jordan Peterson’s Fame Affected His Private Practice
• Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity
• The Intellectual We Deserve
• Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube
• The Left’s Contempt for Jordan Peterson Is Perfectly Rational
• I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous.
• Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto
• Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
• Sunday Times: Unedited Interview Transcript
• Algorithmic extremism: Examining YouTube's rabbit hole of radicalization
• What is the “lite” in “alt-lite?” The discourse of white vulnerability and dominance among YouTube’s reactionaries
• Exposing Jordan Peterson’s Barrage of Revisionist Falsehoods About Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazism

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Oops all meat: How a '50s bodybuilder, a Grateful Dead roadie and an unreadable professor accidentally launched one of America's wildest fad diets.

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Note: In our discussion of Jordan Peterson’s political correctness lecture, I made a sarcastic comment about looking “slim in this dress.” After the episode came out, we started hearing from listeners that my comment reminded them of fatphobic jokes they’d heard in the past and didn’t feel consistent with the message of the show. They were right! It was a bad joke and we've removed it from the episode. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback and editing past episodes in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike

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• Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson
• Atlantic article on the all-beef diet
• Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy
• Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man's smart person?
• How dangerous is Jordan B. Peterson?
• The Intellectual We Deserve
• Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
• The Pronoun Warrior
• Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity
• The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
• Inside the World of the 'Bitcoin Carnivores'
• Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians
• My carnivore diet: what I learned from eating only beef, salt and water
• The Inuit Paradox
• Why Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat
• Owsley “The Bear” Stanley’s Active Low-Carber Forum Posts

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Aubrey thought she could swear less in this week’s episode. She was wrong.

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• Super Size Me Trailer
• "Super Size Me" - CBS NewsWhere's the Beef? The Challenges of Obesity Suits
• Morgan Spurlock on Sexual Misconduct Confession, 'Super Size Me 2'
• Former Employees Say Morgan Spurlock's Production Company Was 'Fratty Boys' Club'
• Food and Drug Law Journal
• “Cheeseburger Bill” protects food industry - The Lancet
• Meet the science teacher who lost 60 pounds eating nothing but McDonald's three meals a day
• Impressed by the demise of Supersize? Take a closer look

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In 2015, Belle Gibson was an Australian "eco-preneur" with a vegetarian cookbook, a blockbuster wellness app and a terminal cancer diagnosis. Today, she's one of the most hated figures in the country.

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• The Woman Who Fooled The World
• What we know about Belle Gibson
• The mystery of Belle Gibson, who claimed she cured cancer with clean living
• Friends and doctors raise doubts over 'Healing Belle' cancer claims
• Mega-blogger Belle Gibson casts doubt on her own cancer claims
• Melbourne mum Belle Gibson on taking the world by storm with her app The Whole Pantry, while fighting terminal brain cancer
• The Belle Gibson scandal: The rise of lifestyle gurus as micro-celebrities in low-trust societies 
• Belle Gibson: "My lifelong struggle with the truth"
• Catalog of Belle’s posts and timeline
• Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con
• Cosmo: An honest account of our experience with Belle Gibson
• Julia Watson's "Breakfast, School Run, Chemo"

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