Let's Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides takes on artificial sweetener addiction. Erica goes back in time and talks about the diet sodas of her youth- Tab and Diet Sprite, and how they made her feel outright unhealthy. She also talks about aspartames ugly history amongst the likes of Monsanto and Donald Rumsfeld, and why you should NOT believe its safe. Do you want to see what its like in artificial sweetener-infused foodiness hell? Erica urges you to quit your sweetness habit! This program is brought to you by Hearst Ranch. We assume because [artificial sweeteners] are allowed in our food, and that the FDA says theyre safe, that they ARE safe. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

You think you know bread, but think again. Tune in to this weeks episode of Lets Eat In and hear how foodiness has hi-jacked the symbol and fabric of life. How did Wonder Bread ruin everything? What was bread like in the days of Moses? How did Julia Childs matzah recipe help shape our fearless hostesss life? Listen in and find out! This program was sponsored by Fairway Market. How has the ultimate symbol of life been hijacked by foodiness? Wonder Bread is the least wonderful bread imaginable The industrialization of wheat flour along with the loss of thousands of diverse species of wheat in our quest for a super species of wheat brought terrible change and loss to our bread lives. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

In this episode of Lets Get Real, our hostess Erica Wides discusses how foodiness is infantilizing our society. Tune in to hear about how processed food is removing decision-making from adults and creating a cycle of dependency. Erica touches on a range of subjects such as factory farming, technology and social media, and contemporary politics. This program was sponsored by Hearst Ranch. Theres so much that infantilizes us, from devices that tell us where we are, to social media that tells us who our friends are, to screens everywhere blaring corporate progaganda at us non-stop. And its also comfortable and convenient and were buying it- hook, line, and sinker. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides gets pumped up about sports nutrition foodiness. Hear a horrifying story about protein powder shakes turned kidney stones and learn more about why Superman wasnt all cut up. Real food will make you real strong! What is industrial surplus milk whey? How does it factor into fitness food? Find out more about the muscle craved foodiness industry rabbithole on a scary episode of Lets Get Real. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery.

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Wides reminds listeners that 7-11 does NOT sell food. What do they sell? Foodiness of course! Learn more about how bad our food options are on the road or at convenience stores like 7-11 and gas stations. How can you avoid the packaged trash at these stores and find real food wherever you are? Tune in and find out! This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. We lose basically one third of our taste buds at [30,000 feet] in the air. Eating in the air on the road isnt your typical trip down the rabbit hole, its like getting your legs caught in a rabbit trap and then falling down the hole. Eating while traveling has never been easy. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real, Erica Occupies Big Food with special guest, food journalist and nutritionist Kristin Wartman. Tune in as they discuss everything from the problems with corporations that control our food supply to Rush Limbaughs recent attack on food justice fighter and author Tracie McMillan. Learn more about the problems we face as a nation when it comes to what were eating and find out what Erica and Kristin think we can do to reverse the tide. This program was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards and Sons. A healthy food system is at the root of a healthy democracy. When we have a handful of corporations controlling what we eat, its a real threat to our democracy. 1/4th of all groceries bought in this country are bought at Walmart. --Kristin Wartman on Lets Get Real

Lets Get Real is back after a short 2-week hiatus and Erica Wides is here to tell you why real food is already smart and only foodiness advertises itself as smart. Find out about the origins of engineered foods and why we always assume that food can be improved upon. From science fiction dreams to realistic let downs, learn about the differences between whats real, whats fake and whats just plain stupid. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard and Winery. Corn was completely engineered by humans to become what it was - an ancient power empire building food staple - to its current incarnation as a vehicle of our human demise. The more smart food you eat, the dumber you get! Smart food is to real food as a Real Housewife is to Meryl Streep --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real its time to break out our children that have been born in the matrix of foodiness and thats just what Erica Wides is here to do. From chicken nuggets and Pediasure, kids foodiness is now present from birth and it put us into a perpetual cycle of bad eating which leads to bad health-- from food dye causing ADHD to organic foodiness making bad food seem real. Learn how you can break out of this food blockade and free your mind and body. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market Human children have existed and lived and thrived for at least a million years . . and havent needed foodiness until 100 years ago. --Erica Wides on Lets Get a Real

This week on Lets Get Real its time to take the replacement out of meal replacements. From purees to shakes to powders we are assaulted every day by the promise of easy and convenient food from Special K bars to Pediasure for kids. Tune in to find out what youre really ingesting with those body building mixes (answer: its a lot of lead) and single serving Trader Joes meals and learn the simple things you can do to pull yourself out of this rabbit-whole of whole-meal replacement. This episode is sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards and Sons. The idea that people use meal replacement powders and shakes for nutrition . . . its ridiculous! Food is nutrition. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real

This week on Lets Get Real host Erica Wides dissects the mythology behind vegetarian/veganism and the people, like Oprah, who say that it is a greener and healthier living style. Its time to break down the barriers behind the vegan-foodiness paradox: we like meat but we dont want to eat it so we eat food that is so heavily processed to taste like meat it ends up being just as bad. So tune in and wake up as to how you can still be healthy and avoid this foodiness rabbithole that our decadent, choice-indulged society has created--it just may take a little extra work. This episode is sponsored by The Hearst Ranch. Its a processed experience . . vegan foodiness is like methadone. . it approximates the heroin or meat eating experience but it does not fulfill . . .so you keep going back. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real