How Big Food Is Keeping Us And Our Children Sick with Calley Means

Mar 15, 2023

Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed and author of an upcoming book on food as medicine, shares his insights on how Big Food and Big Pharma manipulate public health narratives. He discusses the alarming ties between the food industry and chronic health issues, emphasizing the need for informed dietary decisions. Calley critiques how these industries influence health guidelines and promote processed foods, while advocating for a shift towards natural options. The conversation highlights the urgent need for policy reform to prioritize food-based solutions to obesity and related diseases.

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ANECDOTE

Soda Industry Manipulation

Calley Means previously helped the soda industry manipulate minorities and the poor.
They opposed soda taxes against their own interests.

INSIGHT

Rigging Systems of Trust

Big Food and Big Pharma rig systems of trust, manipulating stakeholders like individuals, policymakers, and the medical community.
Their goal is to make food cheaper and more addictive, profiting from our declining health.

ANECDOTE

Food Stamps and Soda

In 2011-2012, Coca-Cola aimed to maintain sugary drink purchases with food stamps, a key nutrition program for lower-income Americans.
Sugary drinks are the top purchase, highlighting how government subsidies fuel unhealthy choices.

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We live in a world that claims to be based on science, goodwill, and policies intended to help people. But in reality, these things are often heavily influenced and manipulated by industry, particularly Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, which have corrupted many institutions, politicians, professional associations, research institutions, and medical schools. And it has, unfortunately, led to mass confusion and illness in the public.

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I sit down with Calley Means to talk about how Big Food and Big Pharma are rigging the system and profiting off of our ill health.

Calley is the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food-as-medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

How big industry drives corruption (6:08 / 4:35)
Calley’s early career experience and how he came to understand the system is rigged (9:06 / 7:24)
How Big Food rigs systems of trust (14:02 / 10:50)
The weaponization of nutrition research (17:11 / 14:07)
Outside funding of medical associations (25:51 / 20:10)
Our healthcare system incentivizes sickness (34:34 / 30:00)
The recent news about Ozempic, which is being touted as a miracle obesity drug, perfectly encapsulates the rigged system (38:57 / 33:22)
Is obesity genetic? (49:55 / 43:50)
How we can fix the system (57:58 / 52:55)
Food as medicine (1:16:03 / 1:11)

Follow Calley on Twitter @calleymeans and on Instagram @calleymeans.