Buddha’s Diet with Dan Zigmond And Tara Cottrell

Buddha’s Diet: The Ancient Art Of Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind With Dan Zigmond And Tara Cottrell

Aired Thursday, 3 November 2016, 7:00 PM ET

There’s a lot we don’t know about the Buddha. For one, the real Buddha as thin. And before he became the “Enlightened One,” he was a pampered prince named Siddhartha. He tried starving himself in his quest for inner peace, but found that extremes brought him no closer to enlightenment. Instead, he sought a “middle way” between unhealthy overindulgence and unrealistic abstinence. The instructions he gave his monks about eating more than 2,500 years ago were surprisingly simple.

Fast forward to today. Cutting Edge scientific research tells us something Buddha knew all along; it’s not what you eat, but when you eat that’s most important. You don’t need to follow the latest fads or give up your favorite foods. You just need to remember a few guidelines that Buddha provided – guidelines that, believe it or not, will help you lose weight, feel better, and stop obsessing about food.

Join Sandie Sedgbeer and guests Dan Zigmond and Tara Cottrell as they discuss:

*   Buddha’s diet – what is it, and why is it so successful?
*   How changing your eating clock is an ancient technique for wellness that Buddha recommended thousands of years ago.
*   How to shut down emotional eating by separating the emotion from the food choice
*   How changing your eating clock and aligning it with your circadian rhythm can bring balance and weight loss
*   and more…

About the Guest Dan Zigmond And Tara Cottrell

DAN ZIGMOND has spent over 20 years living and working in Silicon Valley, working for both tiny startups and tech giants. He is currently Director of Analytics at Facebook, responsible for the data science behind the News Feed. Zigmond is also a board partner at Metamorphic Ventures, a venture capital company based in New York, and an advisor to many startups in Silicon Valley and beyond.

He is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, teaching occasionally at Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz mountains, and has studied and practiced Buddhism in temples in America, Thailand, and Japan. In 2015, he was named one of Wired magazine’s “20 Business Geniuses You Need to Know.” He has two teen daughters, and spends most of his non-work, non-meditating time driving them around.

TARA COTTRELL studied creative writing and her fiction has appeared on NPR, Missouri Review, Palo Alto Weekly, The Indiana Review and Zoetrope All Story Extra.

She works for Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in digital content, and consults for a fitness startup in Silicon Valley.

Cottrell is a mom of three and continues to give her time to a variety of non-profits, including acting as a court appointed advocate for children in the foster system in San Mateo County.

Website: http://www.buddhasdiet.com