Certain foods are linked to not only increased happiness, but great “eudaemonic” well-being, feelings of engagement, creativity, meaning, and purpose in life. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Sadly, there are 20 times more studies published on health and depression than there are on health and happiness. But there is growing interest in the so-called positive psychology movement. See my last video: Are Happier People Actually Healthier? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-happier-people-actually-healthier). I mentioned the benefits of exercise in passing. More on maximizing movement: • Standing Up for Your Health (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/standing-up-for-your-health/) • Enhanced Athletic Recovery Without Undermining Adaptation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/enhanced-athletic-recovery-without-undermining-adaptation/) • How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-exercise-to-sustain-weight-loss/) • Longer Life Within Walking Distance (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/longer-life-within-walking-distance/) • Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Paleo-Diets-May-Negate-Benefits-of-Exercise) • Exercise vs. Drugs for Depression (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/exercise-vs-drugs-for-depression) • Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-of-gold-turmeric-vs-exercise) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-foods-increase-happiness and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Mark Carthy via 123rf. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ This is part of my extended video series on the reductionist trap. See, for example, Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reductionism-deficiency-mentality/). Previous videos that touch on the topic include on Industry Response to Plants Not Pills (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/industry-response-to-plants-not-pills/) and Is the Fiber Theory Wrong? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-the-fiber-theory-wrong/). The Five to One Fiber Rule (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-five-to-one-fiber-rule) still holds, though, since it’s an indication of how heavily processed a product is. There are two sides to the intellectual property argument when it comes to food. I explore both in Plants as Intellectual Property – Patently Wrong? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plants-as-intellectual-property-patently-wrong/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-is-nutrition-so-commercialized and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-is-nutrition-so-commercialized. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image Credit: Pills: PeteLinforth and Broccoli: Meditations via Pixabay. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Finally there's a solution to the mystery of why nuts don't seem to make people gain weight. It appears to be a combination of factors including a boost to our metabolism, which results in us burning more of our own fat stores. This is the fifth of a seven-part video series on the fascinating phenomenon of the mystery of the missing calories. In other words, why don't nuts make us fat? I review the balance of evidence in Nuts and Obesity: The Weight of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nuts-and-obesity-the-weight-of-evidence/) and introduced two theories (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/solving-the-mystery-of-the-missing-calories/) on Monday, both of which were not well supported by a study on peanut butter I detailed in Tuesday's video (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/testing-the-pistachio-principle/). Yesterday's video-of-the-day, Testing the Dietary Compensation Theory (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/testing-the-dietary-compensation-theory/), described an elegant study using walnut smoothies that explained the appetite suppression piece. So if the mystery is now solved, what are the last two videos about? Well today we learned that nuts may boost fat burning in the body, but how? Maybe it's the arginine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fat-burning-via-arginine/); maybe it's the flavonoids (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fat-burning-via-flavonoids/). Stay tuned! Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/testing-the-fat-burning-theory/ and he'll try to answer it! https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Cooked white mushroom consumption stimulates antibody production while potentially still playing an anti-inflammatory role. The immune boosting fruit and vegetable video I reference is Boosting Immunity Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-through-diet/). See also Kale and the Immune System (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kale-and-the-immune-system/) and Sleep & Immunity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sleep-immunity/). The balance between immune function and cancer is not always as straightforward as I noted. See my video series that starts with Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-as-an-autoimmune-disease/). More about mushroom magic in: • Breast Cancer vs. Mushrooms (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-vs-mushrooms/) • Ergothioneine: A New Vitamin? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/ergothioneine-a-new-vitamin/) • Making Our Arteries Less Sticky (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/making-our-arteries-less-sticky/) Probably best to eat cooked, though: Toxins in Raw Mushrooms? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/toxins-in-raw-mushrooms/) How else to decrease inflammation? See: • Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/potassium-and-autoimmune-disease/) • The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/) • Biblical Daniel Fast Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/biblical-daniel-fast-put-to-the-test/) • The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-exogenous-endotoxin-theory/) • Dietary Treatment of Crohn's Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/achieving-remission-of-crohns-disease/) • Fighting Inflammation in a Nut Shell (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-inflammation-in-a-nut-shell/) • Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Purple Potatoes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-effects-of-purple-potatoes/) • Garden Variety Anti-Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/garden-variety-anti-inflammation/) What can we do about allergic diseases? See: • Preventing Childhood Allergies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-childhood-allergies/) • Preventing Allergies in Adulthood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-allergies-in-adulthood/) • Throw Household Products Off the Scent (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/throw-household-products-off-the-scent/) And if amla is not your old friend, become acquainted: • Amla Versus Cancer Cell Growth (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-cancer-cell-growth/) • Amla Versus Cancer Cell Invasion (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-cancer-cell-invasion/) • Amla Versus Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-diabetes/) • A Better Breakfast (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-better-breakfast/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/boosting-immunity-while-reducing-inflammation/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: artizone, ignaciofedz, & Óskar87jk via flickr, as well as mushroomcouncil.org and the British Mycological Society. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org