How One State Is Rewriting Health Policy From the Ground Up | Senator Patrick McMath
Realfoodology
Courtney Swan
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's causing us to be sick? Well, we're putting things in our body that didn't exist 120 years ago. |
| 0:04.5 | People are waking up to this new notion that maybe everything that's available to me is not healthy for me. |
| 0:10.7 | What is one thing that you wish every parent knew about food? |
| 0:13.5 | How incredibly important it is to teach your children the importance of healthy eating and nutrition. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm a true believer in food is medicine. I love to cook, and I've got some kids that enjoy cooking with me. And mentally, it's healthy as well. And it's time you get to share with them. And yeah, it's something that every family should really be paying attention to it and taking advantage of. What do you think is the most misunderstood issue in American politics right now? Is that where you have to be pitted against each other? That is a myth and it's tearing us apart. I want to know if you ever got the chance to ask aliens a question about human health, what would you ask them? That's a really good question. You spent a lot of time on that one. Welcome back to the Real Foodology podcast. On today's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking to chairman of Louisiana's Senate Health and Welfare Committee, Senator Patrick McMath. |
| 0:58.9 | He is at the forefront of one of the most important health reforms happening in the country. |
| 1:03.8 | With Louisiana's new Maha-inspired food bill already signed into law, |
| 1:07.9 | McMath has taken on big food lobbyists, push for mandated nutrition education |
| 1:12.1 | for physicians, and work to bring transparency to harmful ingredients and seed oils in our food supply. |
| 1:17.3 | His vision expands into K through 12 primary care, teaching children what real food is and |
| 1:22.0 | rebuilding a farming infrastructure rooted in local Whole Foods. Today he joins us to break down |
| 1:26.8 | the legislation, the national |
| 1:28.1 | momentum, and why this moment may finally change what Americans eat. This was such an awesome |
| 1:33.8 | episode. It was so cool to sit down with the senator that is really pushing for change in the food |
| 1:39.0 | industry right now, and I'm so excited to see what happens in the next couple of years. So stay |
| 1:44.0 | tuned. I hope you love the |
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| 1:53.2 | Thanks so much for listening. If you've been listening to Real Foodology for a while, |
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