You have hope in the future generations, but the future generations don't have much hope in us.

And that's scary. Because really things are moving so

rapidly now in terms of health and environment where the two are merging that

we who are adults have to be the change and the example.

Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find happiness and health inside and out through self-love, body positivity, and discovering new ways to be our best selves.

Before we get started, a reminder that this show is for general educational purposes

and is not intended to diagnose, advise, or treat any physical or mental illness,

and we always recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly.

I want to welcome David Steinman to the show. He is an environmentalist,

journalist, consumer health advocate, publisher, and author of five books focusing largely on environmental,

dietary, and consumer safety issues, including Diet for Poison Planet in 1990 and most recently raising healthy kids. He is the founder of the publishing company Freedom Press which publishes healthy living magazine.

Welcome to the show, David.

It's great to be with you today, Stacy.

Thank you.

So, listeners, I'm going to be fully transparent.

And David, so you know, there are some things

that I am like the biggest cheerleader and advocate for and some of the things that you

write about and there are some things that I think we might have I might challenge you on and I think that is a really healthy thing for

listeners to hear so that they can be empowered to make their own decision about

what works for them. My background for you, David, so you don't know, is 15 years ago I started writing

dietary cookbooks and have come a long way since then in terms of realizing the harm that some of the

restriction and those things can cause now that I have four teenagers and I saw what

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