How Your Health Is Impacted By Food Marketing And Our Dietary Guidelines

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Essentia. Food marketing and misguided dietary guidelines play a
large role in the food choices we make. These foods are frequently
devoid of nutritional value and, even worse, they are addictive and
keep you going back for more. Our bodies are built and maintained
by what we put in our mouths; we literally are what we eat.
Unfortunately, that means the majority of people in our country are
made of ultra-processed food-like substances that create
disease.  In today’s episode, I talk with Nina Teicholz,
Michael Moss, and Vani Hari on the influence of food marketing and
why the US government’s dietary guidelines may not be so healthy
after all. Nina Teicholz is a science journalist and author of the
New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat,
and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, which upended the conventional
wisdom on dietary fat—especially saturated fat—and spurred a new
conversation about whether these fats in fact cause heart disease.
  Michael Moss, a New York Times investigative reporter turned
food-focused journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for Explanatory
Reporting, and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt
Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, as well as the book
Hooked: Food and Free Will, focused around food and addiction.
  Vani Hari is the revolutionary food activist behind
foodbabe.com, cofounder of organic food brand Truvani, New York
Times best selling author of The Food Babe Way and Feeding You
Lies. She has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft,
Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, and General Mills that attracted
more than 500,000 signatures and led to the removal of several
controversial ingredients used by these companies. This episode is
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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here: Nina
Teicholz Michael Moss Vani Hari