S10 EP12: Chemicals in YOUR Food that May Be Banned Soon
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Hot off the press: Gatorade could be banned in multiple states if its recipe isn't changed! Hold the phone! But isn’t gatorade what you give your kid after a game because you know they’ll drink it? It’s way more fun than water and it has electrolytes! Right? Ok maybe you kinda knew that something was up with it and anything that color is kinda SUS. And sometimes it’s easier to look the other way and just live, without worrying about every darn thing. In this episode, we talk about Gatorade and a number of other products on the shelf at your grocery store that have additives and preservatives that are dangerous to consume and linked to cancer, hyperactivity, and DNA mutations. Other countries have banned these substances. Why haven’t we? No need to panic. Awareness is the key here. In this episode Kelsea and Rachael list the offenders and how to spot them.
ADDITIVES, PRESERVATIVES TO LOOK OUT FOR:
Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Titanium Dioxide, Blue 1, Red 40, Red 3, Propylparaben, Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), Potassium Bromate
WHERE TO LOOK:
Snacks: Doritos, Ruffles, Cheetos, trail mix
Dips: Tostitos queso, Doritos Dip
Drinks: Gatorade, Pedialyte, Colored Drinks, Citrus Drinks
Cereal: Lucky Charms, Trix, Fruit Loops
Baked Goods: Oreos, cupcakes, muffins, Duncan Hines 'Perfectly Moist' cake mix and icing, Pillsbury 'Funfetti' cake mix, bread, cookies, tortillas
Candy: Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, M&Ms, Peeps
Links:
OEHHA Report Linking Hyperactivity
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:03) Foods with potentially dangerous ingredients, including Gatorade
(00:03:16) Gatorade marketing
(00:08:15) Gatorade and nostalgia
(00:10:18) Riding the line between awareness of ingredients and too much anxiety about them
(00:12:30) The Skittles “ban”
(00:14:00) These bans are about chemicals and food additives, not the foods that contain them
(00:15:35) Red dye number 3
(00:18:07) Four food additives that have been removed in other countries
(00:23:19) The effects of Red 40
(00:27:37) Categorizing a food as bad if it contains a known carcinogen.
(00:30:09) Why individual states are banning harmful food ingredients instead of the FDA
(00:36:28) The FDA’s honor system for food additives
(00:40:07) Food dyes can be found in foods that aren’t a natural color
(00:41:13) Not all food dyes are harmful, but some are
(00:41:45) Yuka, the app that lets you scan products and receive a score
(00:43:50) How scores are calculated and what they mean
(00:49:23) Using the app to get recommendations for products with a better score
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| 0:00.0 | There are some dyes that are in modern food, and it's not that those are particularly harmful. |
| 0:06.3 | There are certain ones that are literally extremely harmful and are just being in another country. |
| 0:12.8 | So it's not just like, oh, my God, you just have to eat organic and you can have chips. |
| 0:17.5 | And that's not, that's just not the road we're on. |
| 0:20.6 | And that's not the expectation |
| 0:22.0 | but there are just some that we need to be particularly aware of the big question is this |
| 0:32.7 | in a world of fake instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:42.4 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:49.5 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well |
| 0:56.3 | a part of your life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the |
| 1:03.8 | Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives |
| 1:10.5 | Podcast. I'm Kelsey. Hi, guys. I'm Rachel. Welcome back for another week with Kelsey, Rachel, and Lucy. And Lucy. Hello, Lucy. She's thriving. So shiny. Did you do the leap shine? No, but I gave her a little spritz this morning and I feel like she's really drinking that |
| 1:27.9 | in and glowing. But you know how you did say, like if you don't move it closer to the window, |
| 1:34.5 | they'll just start like going that way. She just started like going towards the window. |
| 1:39.9 | Yeah, just give her a little turn. Yeah. You know? Just straighten her out. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.8 | Well, you just quarter turn, quarter turn, quarter turn. |
| 1:47.7 | And that'll keep the reaching like even so she doesn't topple herself over. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.6 | Does it get top ofy? |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:54.3 | She's thriving. |
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