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How Our Health Suffers Because Of Corruption In The Food System


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Obesity rates have climbed by over 400 percent in the last 60 years. More than half of US adults are overweight or obese, and one in five children has been clinically diagnosed with obesity. What the heck is going on to cause this rapid decline in health that’s also impacting our children at such an alarming rate?


Today on the podcast, I sit down with my friend and business partner Dhru Purohit for part two of our conversation. We discuss the need for a radical shift in food policy at the federal level, why fixing the food system is a bipartisan issue, and the need for transparency to stop corruption in industry-funded nutrition research and academia in favor of Big Food’s agenda.  


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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

  • Corruption in the food system (3:58 / 00:28) 
  • How industry-funded nutrition research yields biased outcomes (9:39 / 6:30) 
  • Tufts University’s Food Compass: what it is and why it went viral (17:35 / 14:27) 
  • Potential solutions for fixing corruption in the food industry (29:16 / 24:37
  • Challenges to doing long-term nutritional studies (36:14 / 30:17)
  • My recommendations for eating seed oils (39:58 / 33:10) 
  • How the food system has corrupted our taste buds and our biology (45:01 / 44:41) 
  • Why the number one risk factor for obesity is not genetics (52:25 / 49:04) 
  • Is eating healthy elitist? (1:07:57 / 1:03:40) 
  • Overcoming societal division for our well-being (1:16:54 / 1:12:37) 

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