Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 545.

I am so excited for today's guest. We have Dr. Rebecca Bevins on the show. She has the most amazing TEDx talk called The Effects of

Artificial Food Dies. And oh my gosh, I sent it to all my friends. I mean, I've known about

food eyes for actually most of my life, which is crazy because my mom did this thing where

my mom was really disciplined

with food.

She was a model before she went into her career as a rep for clothing lines.

So she was kind of in the fashion industry, her whole adult life.

And she had to keep a size eight figure, which is now like a size six.

And she had to wear all of her samples.

So she was super diligent about her diet.

She ate super clean.

But she was addicted to the weirdest food.

She was addicted to red jujubes.

And if you had to go into like the bulk barn and pick out the red jujubes from all the other jujubes,

jujubes are like these weird, I don't know, like almond-sized gummies.

I think they're disgusting.

My mom loved them.

And so she could only eat them at night because when she ate red dye for the rest

of the day, she could not do math.

You asked her what two plus two is she couldn't tell you.

Her entire math side of her brain would shut down.

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