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Let's Get Real episodes

April 10, 2012 Episode 27: If You Want to Be Thin & Not Get Cancer, Eat Real Food
This week on Let’s 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 aspartame’s ugly history amongst the likes of Monsanto and Donald Rumsfeld, and why you should NOT believe it’s safe. Do you want to see what it’s 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 they’re safe, that they ARE safe.” —Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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36 min
April 03, 2012 Episode 126: There’s No Glory in Your Whole Grain
You think you know bread, but think again. Tune in to this week’s episode of Let’s 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 Child’s matzah recipe help shape our fearless hostess’s 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 Let’s Get Real
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41 min
March 27, 2012 Episode 25: You’re Being Infantilized by Fiber Bars
In this episode of Let’s 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.
“There’s 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 it’s also comfortable and convenient and we’re buying it- hook, line, and sinker.” —Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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34 min
March 20, 2012 Episode 24: Performance Doesn’t Come in a Bottle
This week on Let’s 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 wasn’t 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 Let’s Get Real. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
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34 min
March 13, 2012 Episode 23: They Don’t Sell Food at 7
This week on Let’s 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 & Winery.
“We lose basically one third of our taste buds at [30,000 feet] in the air.”
“Eating in the air on the road isn’t your typical trip down the rabbit hole, it’s 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 Let’s Get Real
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45 min
March 06, 2012 Episode 22: Big Foodiness Gets Occupied
This week on Let’s 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 Limbaugh’s 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 we’re eating and find out what Erica and Kristin think we can do to reverse the tide. This program was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.
“A healthy food system is at the root of a healthy democracy. When we have a handful of corporations controlling what we eat, it’s a real threat to our democracy. 1/4th of all groceries bought in this country are bought at Walmart.”
–Kristin Wartman on Let’s Get Real
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35 min
February 29, 2012 Episode 21: Food is Already Smart
Let’s 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 what’s real, what’s fake and what’s just plain stupid. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & 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 Let’s Get Real
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34 min
February 01, 2012 Episode 20: Feed Your Kids Cheese, Not String
This week on Let’s Get Real it’s time to break out our children that have been born in the matrix of foodiness and that’s 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 haven’t needed foodiness until 100 years ago.”
–Erica Wides on Let’s Get a Real
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36 min
January 24, 2012 Episode 19: The Replacements
This week on Let’s Get Real it’s 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 you’re really ingesting with those body building mixes (answer: it’s a lot of lead) and single serving Trader Joe’s 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 & Sons.
“The idea that people use meal replacement powders and shakes for nutrition . . . it’s ridiculous! Food is nutrition.”
–Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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44 min
January 17, 2012 Episode 18: Garden Burgers Don’t Come From Gardens
This week on Let’s 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. It’s time to break down the barriers behind the vegan-foodiness paradox: we like meat but we don’t 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.
“It’s 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 Let’s Get Real
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34 min

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