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The Most Dangerous Lies We Believe About Our Food with Eric EdmeadesThis episodes features a phenomenal teacher that many in our Mindvalley community have come to know and love.Creator of one of our most successful programs, WildFit Quest, Eric Edmeades.Eric’s insights on health, nutrition, and our evolutionary biology have had a profound impact on Vishen, his team, his family, and of course, thousands of Eric’s students who enrolled for his course.If you’ve been following Vishen on Facebook for some time, you may remember the pictures he shared of the incredible changes his body went through while on the WildFit Quest. If you haven’t seen them, you will see them again in this episode.In short, what you’ll learn in this episode will profoundly shift the way you look at food (and our ideas about “dieting”) so you can lose the excess weight and get into the best shape of your life.And it all begins with understanding…The Most Dangerous Lies We Believe About Our FoodHere’s what you’ll learn:Flip your mindset on “dieting” — Eric will show you how we’re using the word “dieting” wrongly and by making a minor shift in our understanding of the word, can help stay on a diet suited without the struggleUnderstanding the human diet — Just as the animals in the wild, humans too have a set of food and nutritional needs that need to be fulfilled, but simply isn’t, because of the food industryHow to stop the craving — Eric will show you a simple method to reframe your desires around the foods you crave (even when you know they really bad for you), and shift that desires towards food that is good for you instead.And much, much more.Below you can find a list of timestamps with the systems and models presented in this training session. You can use the red dots in the video progress bar to jump to a specific topic of the class.Introduction to Eric Edmeades and what you will learn in this episode.On Eric’s background, how he got started in health and with a new mindset about food, lost 35 pounds.  – 03:10What Eric has learned from the Bushmen and how this relates to the human diet. – 17:58What Eric learned about nutrition from the Bushmen and how he used that when climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. –  35:38How to make the behavioral change, how to stop craving certain foods, and what the problem is about ‘cheat days.’ –  46:18 How food is messages, and how it triggers a certain behavior.  – 55:02 The behavior change (change your wants), making cravings disappear, and what to do to change your food choices in future. –  01:04:20