261. How We Lost Control of Our Food w/ Kyle Diamantas

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Unveiling America's hidden food crisis
0:43 - Meet the FDA's determined food chief
2:20 - How food additive rules dangerously evolved
5:53 - FDA's bold new proactive food strategy
8:34 - Ultra-processed foods: a national investigation
10:25 - Beyond food: what else impacts health?
11:46 - The truth about useless, harmful food dyes
13:17 - People power vs. big

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0:00.0	The only purpose of these dyes is to make foods more attractive and appealing.
0:04.0	The mandate of Kellogg's is to show profit.
0:07.0	We never really studied it the way we should have.
0:10.0	What's the benefit that the American consumer gets from these dies?
0:14.0	Kids should have a million dreams.
0:16.0	Sick kid has one, and that's to get healthy.
0:18.0	The agencies are off behind this because that has never happened.
0:23.7	That's actually bringing change in a way that we never see the planet.
0:25.0	We're no longer going to be reactive.
0:26.1	We're going to be proactive.
0:29.6	It's pretty clear, but the combination here is not doing well for humans.
0:32.1	60 to 70% of our foods now are ultra-processed.
0:33.8	Food is very, very addictive now.
0:35.4	And it's been engineered that way.
0:39.7	Kyle, good to meet you. Absolutely. Great to be here.
0:44.5	Thanks. So, thanks for coming on the podcast. So you are, you just told me before the podcast,
0:49.0	you are the F and FDA. That's right. You are the deputy commissioner of the FDA. So you run the food side of the FDA. That's right. Deputy commissioner for food. So run the food side of FDA. We've got a lot to talk about
0:54.3	but, we do. Okay. I don't know. We have enough time. We got a lot to talk to. I know. Well, we're going to
0:58.3	try and squeeze every minute out of this. What is your background? How did you come into this? Because
1:02.2	from my perspective, the food system and the FDA is badly broken. Yeah. Did you, is this, you're just coming into this role. Did you see that? Correct. Before this? Yeah. So I've been
1:13.1	involved in the food industry since I started my professional career. I'm a lawyer. I've been doing
1:17.6	food and beverage law, my entire career. And so I've sort of seen every side of it. I've seen the
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