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Courtney Swan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2012 total appearances

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The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And you don't actually know what's in them.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

I mean, there was this really famous- That's the problem.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

There's no way to find out.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And what I'm discovering, because I'm starting to work on my own products right now, is that a lot of the manufacturers, so it's become really popular to have very simple ingredients on your label.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

So objectively, you look at the Chobani label and you're like, oh my gosh, this is three ingredients.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

This is great.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

They could have 20 ingredients hiding under natural flavors and you just don't know.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And the manufacturers, what they're doing is they know how to do this.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

They know how to cheat the system.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

They say, oh, we'll just put all these ingredients under natural flavors.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And then you can have this really clean label and it has, you know, oh my God, it has three ingredients in it.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

I wouldn't.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And I'll tell people for a couple reasons.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

First and foremost, I don't want to put my money into the CAFOs, which are factory farms.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

If you just look up the living conditions for these cows, it's absolutely horrible.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

We should have never done this in the first place.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

And then you look at it from a health standpoint, you're getting milk from sick animals.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

I don't know how else to put it.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

You are getting milk from sick animals.

The Dr Pompa Podcast
The Food Pyramid Was Designed Backwards On Purpose with Courtney Swan

Yep, they put them on antibiotics prophylactically, meaning preventatively, because they're loaded in these horrible, dirty conditions, living on top of each other.