281: Vani Hari aka Food Babe - Feeding You Lies • Non-GMO vs. Organic • Life As A New Mom
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Vani Hari (IG: @thefoodbabe) is a food activist, New York Times bestselling author of The Food Babe Way, and co-founder of Truvani. She was named one of the most influential people on the internet by Time magazine.
Encouraged by her friends and family, Vani started a blog called foodbabe.com in 2011. It quickly became a massive vehicle for change. Her blog has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, and General Mills that attracted more than 500,000 signatures and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies.
Today we're discussing Vani's new book, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry’s Playbook and Reclaim Your Health.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Vani’s life has changed since becoming a mother
- The backlash from the food industry after her first book
- Fighting against food policies that are making us sick
- Breaking free from the control of the food industry
- Being named Time magazine’s most influential person on the internet in 2015
- Why Vani started a movement
- Food scientists complicate food
- How the food industry is manipulating us with the media
- The top 10 big players of the food industry
- Who is safety testing all the different chemicals in our food?
- The link between artificial flavours & cancer
- TBHQ preservative increases food allergies
- Avoid processed food as much as possible
- Unethical practices of the food industry
- Look beyond the headlines at who funded the study
- The truth about artificial sweeteners
- The problem with sugar-free products
- Lead by example
- What are obesogens?
- 7 major crops containing GMOs
- Glyphosate is carcinogenic
- What the non-GMO label really means
- The 3 different categories of organic
- Organic approved pesticides
- Always check the ingredients
- Natural flavor is created in a laboratory
- The inspiration behind Truvani
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Related links:
Vani Hari - Feeding You Lies (book)
Vani Hari's website (Food Babe)
Follow the Vani Hari on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Vani Hari - The Food Babe Way (book)
Listen to Vani Hari previously on TUHP (episode #20)
Listen to Gabby Bernstein previously on TUHP (episode #208)
Listen to Dr. Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episode #74, #84, and #214)
Listen to Mark Sisson previously on TUHP (episode #178)
Derek Halpern (Social Triggers)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | getting that information out about the chemicals in our food supply and realizing what's at play |
| 0:06.0 | really taught me about how the food industry operates and what their playbook is and how they will do anything to manipulate the public in order |
| 0:15.7 | to continue selling us their products. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:30.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:33.2 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:37.6 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:41.9 | And this week, Vonnie Hari is back on the show. |
| 0:44.4 | She's a food activist, New York Times best-selling author of The Food Babe |
| 0:47.8 | Way and co-founder of True Vani. |
| 0:50.0 | She was named one of the most influential people on the internet by Time magazine. |
| 0:53.9 | Encouraged by her friends and family, |
| 0:55.6 | Vani started a blog called Food Babe.com in 2011. |
| 0:59.1 | It quickly became a massive vehicle for change. |
| 1:01.6 | Her blog has led campaigns against food giants like |
| 1:04.0 | Crafts, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, that attracted more than 500,000 signatures |
| 1:08.9 | and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies. |
| 1:13.4 | Today we're discussing Vonnie's new book, Feeding You Lies, How to Unrival the Food Industries |
| 1:18.0 | Playbook, and Reclaim Your Health. |
| 1:20.3 | As Jesse mentioned, Vonnie was on the show before, so be sure to go back and check out episode 20. |
| 1:25.0 | And we're so thrilled to have her back on the show today to really talk about the evils of the food industry. |
| 1:31.0 | And you guys are in for so much incredible information. So here's what we get into. |
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