How The Food Industry Manipulates Public Opinion, Science, And Government

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Money is corrupting science, our government’s food policies, and the media. So where is this money coming from? There is a multi-trillion dollar global food industry that is growing, processing, manufacturing, marketing, and serving food like substances that are making us sick and fat. They are cheap to make and rake in big profits for ”Big Food” which is furiously promoting false science. And many of the nutrition myths that are prevalent today were spread like propaganda by the food industry.

Taxpayers are footing the bill for the growing of processed foods (through agricultural subsidies for the raw materials of processed food—namely wheat, corn, and soy), and for providing the poor quality processed food and soda to the poor (through our food stamps program). Then, we also pay for the costs of obesity and chronic disease caused by that food through Medicaid and Medicare. Not to mention the costs of soil degradation, depletion of our water supplies, climate change, and the widespread damage to humans and ecosystems from pesticides. This is because the food industry lobbyists push policies that use our tax dollars against us.

Dr. Hyman talks about all this and more in this mini-episode. Learn more about these topics and the actions we can take for more transparency from the government and corporations in Dr. Hyman's new book, Food Fix. FoodFixBook.com

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy a number of these companies actually are standing up and doing good things
0:06.3	And I think I see I see progress. I see change
0:09.6	Hey everybody's doctor. Hi, I'm back with another little short mini-sode episode on my new book food fix coming out
0:16.5	February 25th check it out food fix book.com
0:20.2	Today I want to talk about how the food industry
0:23.6	Many-billade public opinion
0:25.6	Manipulate science and many-billade the government
0:29.1	So here we go
0:30.8	Let's take on science first. I mean who isn't confused about what to eat and that's why I wrote my book food with action
0:37.5	I eat but what's really going on is a concerned effort by the food industry
0:43.4	that
0:45.0	Manipulate science the government our NIH government spends about
0:49.0	one billion a year on nutrition research the food industry spends
0:54.6	12 billion and they fund all kinds of concocted studies that actually manipulate the truth for example
0:59.9	I think Coca-Cola spend a hundred and twenty million dollars to universities and other groups to actually
1:05.5	provide
1:06.5	Money quote money for research and guess what they funded
1:10.5	389 articles and 169 journals things like exercises the key to weight loss that soda doesn't have any role in
1:17.4	In our weight the snack food manufacturers
1:20.5	Association groups a confectioners group funded studies that show the kids who eat candy actually lose more weight and have less
1:27.2	Information the kids who don't eat candy. I mean how does that even make sense and when you look at the data
1:31.9	I'm you know studies funded by the food industry are
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