8 Out of 9 Dietary Guideline Authors Had Ties to Big Meat and Dairy. So What Are We Supposed to Eat? Dr. John Lewis Breaks It Down
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Eight out of nine people writing the dietary guidelines had ties to big meat and big dairy. |
| 0:06.4 | Hmm, wait until you hear this one. |
| 0:09.3 | And why are we still addicted to cheese? |
| 0:12.4 | The answer might surprise you. |
| 0:14.5 | And what if Alzheimer's isn't inevitable? |
| 0:17.3 | What if protecting your brain starts with something on your plate? |
| 0:21.5 | Plant power doctor, Dr. Lewis is here to connect all those dots. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Alison Melody, and that's what's coming up next on food heels. |
| 0:29.9 | And if you want to support your brain health right now, check out daily brain care. |
| 0:34.1 | That's by Dr. Lewis Nutrition. |
| 0:35.8 | It's a daily formula designed to help protect and restore |
| 0:38.9 | brain function. Go to Dr. Lewis Nutrition.com slash food heels and use promo code Allison to save 10%. |
| 0:47.0 | Next up, my interview with Dr. John Lewis. Roll it, Roxy. This is the Food Heels podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Warning, side effects of this podcast may include increased health and vitality, thoughts of living longer, developing a more positive outlook on life, feelings of joy, cravings for kale and Keelaw, and a spike in Tinder matches. |
| 1:05.5 | All right, he is the founder of Dr. Lewis Nutrition, a former associate professor at the University of Miami Miller School of |
| 1:12.9 | Medicine. Please welcome Dr. John E. Lewis to the show. Welcome, Dr. Lewis. Thank you so much for having |
| 1:20.5 | me. It's great to be here. I'm excited for our interview today. I love having a plant-based doctor |
| 1:25.3 | on the show. It makes me so happy. I love talking to someone else who also eats plant-based, so we're even. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, okay. So 27 years, you've got me beat. I want to talk about, like, why did you first originally go plant-based? What was your reasoning? |
| 1:41.3 | So almost 30 years ago, I had a friend of mine, which was obviously in the early days of the internet, |
| 1:47.7 | I had a friend of mine turned me onto a website called not milk.com. |
| 1:51.1 | Okay. |
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