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The Dr. Hyman Show

How To Be A Food Activist In Your Own Kitchen with Vani Hari

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

How To Be A Food Activist In Your Own Kitchen | This episode is brought to you by Tushy, Perfect Keto, and Thrive Market


We live in a world where our food is making us sick, tired, and overweight. Big Food brands design their packaged products to be addictive, so we over consume unhealthy ingredients, including cheap additives that are banned in other countries. Product labels are deceiving, hiding risky chemicals that contaminate our food and tout approval from organizations we’re led to believe are protecting our health, but in reality are doing anything but that. 


On this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, I was so happy to talk to Vani Hari about how Big Food manipulates nutrition research, purposely makes their food addictive, and how we can regenerate our health by getting in the kitchen. 


Named as one of the “Most Influential People on the Internet” by Time Magazine, Vani Hari is the revolutionary food activist behind foodbabe.com, co-founder of organic food brand Truvani, New York Times best selling author of, The Food Babe Way, and Feeding You Lies. She has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway and General Mills that attracted more than 500,000 signatures, and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies. Through corporate activism, petitions, and social media campaigns, Vani and her Food Babe Army have become one of the most powerful populist forces in the health and food industries. 


Her drive to change the food system inspired the creation of her new company, Truvani, where she produces real food without added chemicals, products without toxins, and labels without lies. Vani has been profiled in the New York Times and The Atlantic, and has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and NPR. 


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Here are more of the details from our interview: 


  • Vani’s personal health journey that led her to food activism (9:28)


  • The prevalence of harmful food additives and chemicals in our food supply (17:30)


  • The myth government regulation and supervision of our food (19:41)


  • The importance of reading food labels and ingredient lists on our food (24:12)


  • The food industry’s funding of so-called independent groups (26:24)


  • Three question to train your mind to eat real food (34:58)


  • Why “natural flavors” should be avoided at all costs (37:11)


  • How government programs help drive food industry profit over protecting our health (41:18)


  • The best and worst cooking oils (46:21)


  • Vani’s “sweet blend,” sugar alternative (54:26)


Learn more about Vani Hari at https://foodbabe.com/ and follow her on Facebook @thefoodbabe, on Instagram @thefoodbabe, and on Twitter @thefoodbabe.


Get Vani’s new cookbook, “Food Babe Kitchen: More than 100 Delicious, Real Food Recipes to Change Your Body and Your Life,” at  https://foodbabekitchen.com/






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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

0:02.6

So food's not regulated.

0:04.6

The information I'm getting being told is being manipulated by the food company.

0:08.9

So it benefits them, not me and my health.

0:12.3

You start to realize the only thing that you can do is to take control of your health

0:17.9

and understand what you're putting in your body.

0:20.1

And once you understand that, you start reading ingredient labels and then you go, aha, I get it.

0:30.0

Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.

0:31.5

You know, I'm all about the benefits of healthy fats and I've had some patients find that

0:35.1

a high fat keto diet is the best way to support better cognition, lose some stubborn belly

0:39.1

vet and even reverse certain signs of aging.

0:42.3

But I often hear them say that it can be really hard to stick to, especially if they have

0:45.4

busy lives and they need food they can grab on the go.

0:48.4

So when I found perfect keto, I was really excited.

0:51.2

One of my favorite items from perfect keto is their nut butters.

0:53.9

They're made with MCT oil, macadamia nuts, cashews and coconut on there.

0:58.4

Many of healthy fats in there to keep you fuller longer.

1:01.0

Plus they have amazing flavors like chocolate hazelnut, almond butter and jelly, snickerdoodle

1:05.1

and macadamia vanilla, all formulated to taste great while keeping you in ketosis.

1:10.0

My favorite is the chocolate hazelnut.

1:12.1

I love that it comes in an easy, resealable squeeze pack that's really handy for traveling.

1:17.1

Their keto cookies are also a really tasty way to enjoy an occasional healthy treat.

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