020: Vani Hari aka Food Babe – “Natural” Means Nothing, Yoga Mat Sandwiches, Scary Meat Alternatives
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, we are speaking with real food advocate, Vani Hari (Food Babe). She is on a mission to keep our food products free of artificial dyes, flavourings and sweeteners. Vani is also anti GMOs, antibiotics in meats, chemicals, food additives and preservatives. Her activism has lead to big changes in the food industry, positively influencing companies such as Subway, Kraft and Starbucks.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Vani's health journey from childhood to sickness and now thriving
- How did the name Food Babe and the Food Babe Army come to be?
- The growth of Vani's blog and her first taste of activism
- How Vani was able to get a chemical found in yoga mats removed from Subway bread in North America
- The push back Vani has gotten from companies such as Kraft and Starbucks
- You must become an ingredient label expert and if you don't know an ingredient then put the product down
- How the word "natural" is unregulated
- The scary truth about over processed, fake veggie products
- You will feel better by ditching the processed foods
- Packaged foods can be good for you
- Cooking with coconut oil over olive oil
- Grass fed butter and ghee are healthy fats in the kitchen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm |
| 0:02.0 | I'm here |
| 0:05.0 | I'm here. Hello and welcome the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | My name's Jesse Chappists and I'm here with |
| 0:15.0 | Marnie Wasserman. Today we have a really special guest, Vonnie Hari, aka Food Babe, who is out looking out for the greater good of us all. She is digging into |
| 0:26.4 | different foods and food companies and exposing hidden chemicals and ingredients that are causing detriment to our health. |
| 0:35.0 | Vonnie has come face to face with companies such a subway and has brought forth an |
| 0:40.4 | ingredient that you'll find out later that was also found in a yoga mat, pretty gross. |
| 0:45.6 | She's also after companies such a Starbucks craft among so many others and really just trying |
| 0:50.9 | to shake the ground and get things changed for the greater good of people |
| 0:55.1 | because it's all about the ingredients and she really does have a passion to educate consumers |
| 1:00.4 | on how to read labels better, how to make the choice of healthy |
| 1:05.0 | package foods versus unhealthy package foods and watching the processed |
| 1:09.3 | ingredients that we are consuming on a day-to-day basis. So it's very much in line with everything that Jesse and I are about and just making better choices and choosing whole foods over processed foods. |
| 1:20.0 | And Vani also gets into how the word natural is being used quite a bit on |
| 1:26.5 | different packaging to try and convince us that certain foods are healthy and we |
| 1:32.3 | find out that it really doesn't hold a lot of weight |
| 1:35.0 | behind it so that's an important thing to consider it's called health washing and |
| 1:40.4 | companies are doing that to try and promote unhealthy products as healthy. |
| 1:45.0 | And we're really excited to talk about Vonnie's new book, The Food Babe Way. |
| 1:50.0 | This book is amazing. |
| 1:52.0 | Marnie and I got pre-release copies and it talks about weight loss, it gives different healthy |
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