The Dark Side of The Food Industry: How The Standard Diet Is Making Us Sick & Fat | Jason Karp
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Food has become a more complex part of our lives than ever before. Much of what we think is food is actually many ingredients disguised as food, with entirely different, often negative impacts on the human body. Sadly, this is a greater problem here in the US than in other parts of the world, thanks to the food industry, corrupt intentions, and broken policies. Today, I talk about all this and more with my guest Jason Karp, whose personal experience of nearly going blind due to a toxic lifestyle led him to discover a different way; he made it his mission to get “back to human.”
In this episode, we discuss:
Jason’s personal health journey and why that has prompted him to take on the campaign against Kellogg’s (7:53)
The unhealthy state of America’s food industry (22:42)
How Kellogg’s has one cereal formulation for Canada and another for the US that is full of chemicals (26:07)
The correlation between food dyes and ADHD, and the failure of Kellogg's pledge (29:04)
The political aspect of food regulation and dangers of unregulated food additives (32:55)
Why we are in a state of metacrisis and what that means for our future (37:18)
The bidirectional relationship between food and mental health (46:04)
The financial burden of healthcare on the US government due to unhealthy diets (53:52)
Supporting the Kellogg's Initiative: Sign the Petition (1:06:03)
We have a lot to do to shift our food system and eliminate harmful ingredients in the US, but there are ways to enact positive change starting today. We can all support a cleaner food industry and better health by voting with our dollar, purchasing real food, and getting involved in policy policy changes. I hope you’ll listen to this episode to learn more.
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I have been saying this since the start of the pandemic!!!
I refuse to eat anything I do not cook myself!
Result? Lost more than 55lbs.
Hoping to continue my journey, towards a healthier body & lifestyle!
Which includes intermittent fasting!
Another jaw-dropping information that poor quality foods are sold to Americans, and the quality foods are sold to Canada and Europe. 🥺
I open a restaurant in 96 to eat what is normal
illnesses = It’s for customers
The great American diet experiment.
Maltodextrine is in food and drink. It is being used as a filler or thickener. Having an effect on glycemic changes.
I would enjoy hearing what your thoughts are about having it in so many “health products ” ensure, boost, and other dietary supplements for elderly and infant formulas.
There is 126 different names for sugar, so if the company can get away with sneaking it they will. Therefore those are not “healthy” products, but they are being sold to us as if they are. It’s criminal.
They put it in so many sugar free products. Also Dextrose.
One You Tuber did blood sugar tests after 4 different types of chocolate bars. The last, sugar free raised his bloodsugar higher than the high sugar milk chocolate choice at the beginning.
Guess what was used to sweeten it? A combination of Maltodextrose and Dextrose.
My dad was diabetic. Used Dextrose to raise bloodsugar fast if it went too low.
Ya, I stopped those dyed foods along time ago, POISONOUS!!!
If you can even call them food. What a joke.
Just think all of those cereals and junk food that people are buying and giving to their kids 😳
The food and pharma companies work together.
Exactly. RFK Jr. talks often about this. It all runs very deep. Even back in the early nitrate additive days, largest hot dog companies parent company was Phillip Morris which had deep pockets in Washington. Everyone involved knew nitrates had studied causing cancer.
And control everything with tech
Doctors keep us sick also.
If you saw the food and treats the elderly people ate and the meds you would see it as a big business and you get nowhere if you request health food I know I fought for my mother and the company turned me off
It’s so horrid seeing how diabetic patients see fed in nursing homes. Tons of carbs. Tons.
Schools do sell fruit loops and all kinds of cereal and parents wonder why their children act out.
😂😂😂
Your guest did well to pick back up after each interruption ;). Great interviewee.
Honestly I felt the same. He cut him off and finished his sentences the entire time. I think it’s out of a good place, hymen is so passionate about this topic that I think he can’t help himself lol. But he does need to be more self aware while he interviews
@@juliefitzgerald-frangos2211 it was even more obvious on the interview with Dr. Suzanne Goh on autism. I want to hear more from her.
The cereal industry in Michigan has more environmental impact. The paper box company in Kalamazoo creates air quality that is not safe. The water damage to Rivers and Lake Michigan where eating the fish may be dangerous to pregnant women etc. So lets work on the change we can make and also look at the bigger picture.
Look at films from the 40s! Very few fat people in those films. Today, most people are fat. Damn, Crisco is unsafe to eat. I grew up with my mother cooking with that stuff.😢
And white frosting on a bakery cake is just Crisco and sugar. Enjoy!
I think Crisco and margarine were one of the first efforts to damage us. Scarcity was created through the war effort, which was created from other “reasons”, yet still made many people increasingly disgustingly rich.
41:30 this is so true. I’m Gen X and remember my older family eating pizza, burgers etc and they were within a healthy weight range.
I was thinking about this today too. My mom was a sugar addict and we drank Pepsi, had candy and went out for pizza and tacos etc but we were all a healthy weight growing up. We were pretty active but still, things have changed dramatically.
I don’t eat anything Kellogg makes, so where can I find the petition?
Canadian Pro Tip: Don’t eat Fruit Loops even if they’re slightly less worst than in the US.
It is practically impossible to find something that comes in a bag or box that does not have dangerous ingredients. How is that possible?? I prepare all my meals from scratch and I never go to restaurants. This country is bizarre.
The reality of what is going on in this country is that the government has been busy suing, small, farmers, that has been their choice of where the money is being spent. They sued an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania, who was providing people with healthy food to eat and many of them Actually were healthier because of what they were buying from him but yet the government went after him. Many other small farmers, who are regenerative in this country are being sought after and the rules they are being given to run their farms is putting them out of business. They want the big outfits who make all this bad food stay in business, whereas the small farmers are being sued and that’s the true reality of what is actually going on. I don’t want the crappy cereal from Kellogg’s and will never eat it again in my life because I know what it does for one’s body.
Please look at the ingredients in baby formula. This starts the babies out at a disadvantage healthwise. Please parents read the labels!
Most cereals are corn chips that taste like desserts.
What a powerful episode Doctor!!!!! Where’s the petition available for signature? I love your show!!!! Thank you so much!!!
It’s not just the food, the meds that are formulated for other countries have less unnecessary chemicals in them. Japan is the cleanest.
And cost way less in other countries.
The problem is not just food dyes. Kellogg’s “food” is just bad. Whether it’s cookies or crackers or cereal… Removing the food dye is a tiny change. I applaud you for your efforts, but I will not buy kellog’s food or any other big manufacturers’ “food” regardless of the changes that they make.