Hello everybody, it's Reed Tracy. Welcome back to the You Can Heal Your Life podcast.

Today's guest is going to be Vani Hari and she has done a book with us called Feeding

You Lies and she's also known as The Food Babe and her brand new book is called The Food

Babe Kitchen and it has so many incredible recipes and amazing pictures of her, the family

and a whole bunch of incredible looking food. How you doing Vani?

I'm doing so good Reed, thanks so much for having me on.

Yeah, that's our pleasure and you've been busy helping people like really understand ingredients

of food and calling people out for putting things in that they shouldn't in food and you've

really kind of made that your mission and you've done a couple different books that covered

that topic. What made you want to do a book, a cookbook like where you share recipes with people?

Well, I think fundamentally cooking and preparing your own ingredients is the most important

thing that we can do for our health and the biggest solution to breaking free from the food

industry and the corrupt practices of putting a lot of chemicals in our food and the over-reliance

on processed food and when I was growing up I wasn't allowed to be in the kitchen. My dad

did not want me to be near the stove, well obviously because he didn't want me to burn myself but

also growing up in an Indian family from India they both were both my parents took studies as

being the most important thing, math and science. They didn't want me to learn the traditional

kind of things that you do around the house. I never knew how to cook. I didn't really know what

I was doing when I left the house, when I went to college. Even though my mother was

cooking from scratch, was spending hours in the kitchen every single day making homemade Indian food.

A lot of times I wouldn't even eat it or touch it because I want to McDonald's or Burger King

or Wendy's instead and because that food was cheap and I would eat it, my parents bought it for me

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