193. Jen Smiley: How to Read Food Labels to Avoid the Hidden Toxic Ingredients in Your Food!
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Intro
This chapter explores the misleading aspects of food labeling, revealing how they serve more as marketing gimmicks than informative guides. It highlights the health risks of preservatives and additives, urging parents to foster healthier eating habits amidst the challenges of processed food convenience.
What if the solution to your chronic fatigue, stubborn weight gain, and persistent inflammation is hiding in plain sight on every food label you ignore? In this conversation with food label expert Jen Smiley, we expose the deceptive marketing tactics that keep you sick while revealing the simple food swaps that can transform your health in weeks, not years.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
0:28 Why food labels matter
1:27 Jen's personal health journey
4:50 How food companies manipulate nutrition labels
10:20 The hidden inflammatory ingredients
11:22 Exposing the intentional food addiction industry
16:01 Make America Local Again movement
18:36 Why kids don't need lectures, they need clean food
20:55 Simple family meal swaps that actually work
24:07 Hidden dangers in bread, non-dairy milk, & protein bars
26:28 Di-potassium phosphate & other toxic stabilizers to avoid
30:28 Deceptive "healthy" labeling on gluten-free & vegan products
31:47 The 1994 nutrition label designed to hide ingredients
33:05 How to eat clean when dining out
41:54 Local farmers have 200-300x more nutrition density
44:27 $14 billion food advertising targets kids with cartoon manipulation
50:43 Clean sweetener alternatives
56:56 How to actually find & support local farmers in your area
58:58 What does it mean to you to be an Ultimate Human?
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