Food companies love to market with buzzwords, but research shows these labels can confuse more than they clarify. In this Thriving Thursday episode, Dru unpacks what “natural,” “organic,” and “sugar-free” actually mean, how regulators define them, and how to read food labels with confidence.

Food Labels Exposed – what “natural,” “organic,” and “sugar-free” really mean

Rewrite Rising is the podcast where you can rewrite your health journey and rise above your past. I’m Dru Forbes, a writer and nutrition coach who believes health should feel possible, not punishing. Each week, you’ll get Mindset Mondays to ground your start, and Thriving Thursdays to cut through the noise with evidence-based nutrition and lived experience. We unpack the misinformation you’ve been fed about health, from diet culture and calorie myths to industry-funded “science”, and explore how real change happens through compassion, consistency, and sustainable habits. Not perfectly. Not prescriptively. But with care, clarity, and truth.

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Rewrite Rising is the podcast where you can rewrite your health journey and rise above your past.I’m Dru Forbes, a writer and nutrition coach who believes health should feel possible, not punishing.Each week, you’ll get Mindset Mondays to ground your start, and Thriving Thursdays to cut through the noise with evidence-based nutrition and lived experience.We unpack the misinformation you’ve been fed about health, from diet culture and calorie myths to industry-funded “science”, and explore how real change happens through compassion, consistency, and sustainable habits.Not perfectly. Not prescriptively. But with care, clarity, and truth.

Rewrite Rising is the podcast where you can rewrite your health journey and rise above your past. I’m Dru Forbes, a writer and nutrition coach who believes health should feel possible, not punishing. Each week, you’ll get Mindset Mondays to ground your start, and Thriving Thursdays to cut through the noise with evidence-based nutrition and lived experience. We unpack the misinformation you’ve been fed about health, from diet culture and calorie myths to industry-funded “science”, and explore how real change happens through compassion, consistency, and sustainable habits. Not perfectly. Not prescriptively. But with care, clarity, and truth.

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Food Labels Exposed – what “natural,” “organic,” and “sugar-free” really mean