How Food Subsidies Keep Ultraprocessed Food Prices Low And Chronic Disease Rates High
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Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Subsidizing food has been a practice in the US government for a very long time; we’ve subsidized sugar since 1790 and wheat, corn, and soy since 1933. All four of these foods, also known as commodity crops, are mainstay ingredients found in the ultra-processed foods driving chronic disease. And we taxpayers are footing the bill. Something is wrong with this picture.
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Robert Lustig, Ken Cook, and Paulette Jordan about the impact of subsidized commodity crops on food prices and our health.
Dr. Robert Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He’s the Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He is also one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry, in part through his game-changing books. His latest work is Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.
Ken Cook is the president and cofounder of the Environmental Working Group (EWG). He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances. Under Cook’s leadership, the EWG has pioneered the use of digital technologies to empower American families with easy-to-use, science-driven tools to help reduce their exposure to potentially harmful ingredients in food, drinking water, cosmetics, and other household products.
Paulette Jordan was the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Idaho, becoming the first woman nominated to the position by a major party in the state and the first Native American woman nominated for governor in US history. She is recognized in Idaho and across the nation as an inspirational and audacious leader.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, there's no reason for subsidizing food. |
| 0:06.7 | We are subsidizing all the things that are killing us and we have since 1933. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark. I know a lot of you out there are practitioners like me helping |
| 0:18.8 | patients heal using real food and functional medicine as your framework for getting to the |
| 0:23.2 | root cause. What's critical to understanding what each individual person in body needs is testing, |
| 0:29.4 | which is why I'm excited to tell you about Rupa Health. Looking at hormones, organic acids, |
| 0:35.2 | nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, gut bacteria, and so many other internal variables can help |
| 0:40.9 | us find the most effective path to optimize health and reverse disease. But up till now, |
| 0:46.2 | that menu are usually ordering tests for one patient from multiple labs. And I'm sure many of you |
| 0:50.8 | can relate how time consuming this process was and then it could all feel like a lot of work to |
| 0:55.6 | keep track of. Now there's Rupa Health, a place for functional medicine practitioners to access more |
| 1:01.5 | than 2000s, especially labs from over 20 labs like Dutch, Fiber, and America, Genoa, |
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| 1:17.7 | you need and giving you more time to focus on patients. This is really a much needed option |
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| 1:43.9 | to me we have to look at how unique each body is. Now with technology advancing in amazing ways, |
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