Why people recommend it
Eat Smarter by Shawn Stevenson is a comprehensive health and nutrition guide that explores how food choices impact overall physical and mental well-being. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, host Jay Shetty expressed great enthusiasm for speaking with Shawn Stevenson about the publication and his personal journey, emphasizing to listeners that the extensive research findings referenced by Stevenson are documented within the pages of Eat Smarter. Furthermore, on Huberman Lab, Kelly Starrett recommended the book while discussing the creation of a family-oriented dining and table culture. Starrett highlighted Stevenson's focus on household dynamics as the fundamental functional unit of societal transformation, stressing that investing energy into household habits is the key to driving broader cultural change one home at a time.
Who recommended it
- Jay Shetty Recommended
- Kelly Starrett Recommended
Jay Shetty — 2 mentions
“Today, I'm excited to speak to him about his book 'Eat Smarter' and his journey.”
“I want everyone listening and watching to know that all these reviews from researchers are in the book 'Eat Smarter', which Sean's referring to.”
Kelly Starrett — 1 mention
“Sean Stevenson wrote a beautiful book about creating a table culture and a culture around eating for your family. For me, the functional unit of change is the household; that's where I want to invest my energy. That's how we'll transform society—one household at a time.”
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Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“One of the studies I share in my new book, 'The E-Smart Family Cookbook', looked at what happens when we take real, whole food-based vitamin C versus synthetic vitamin C.”
“Couple that with a new study highlighted in the 'E-Smart Family Cookbook', conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University, which performed a meta-analysis of 148 studies involving 300,000 people.”
“So, to transition into this from the dinner table where we left off, by the way, all of those studies are featured in the new East Marar Family Cookbook.”
“We've all had a nice salmon filet that's great. I've got a honey Sriracha salmon recipe in the book that is fantastic.”
“This has been known for quite some time, and by the way, this is mentioned in a family cookbook.”
“And so, it’s the Eat Smarter Family Cookbook, as I mentioned, with over 250 scientific references in this cookbook.”
“The reason that I don't talk about this often, Jay, is that I wrote this book to address how food is affecting how we communicate with each other.”