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.