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Courtney Swan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2012 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

It's called Eat Right.

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

And the Eat Right conference was being sponsored by Coke and Diet Coke.

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

They had a massive thing at the front where they were handing out Diet Cokes.

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

And I went to my parents and I said, I can't do this.

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

I do not want to be educated under a program that is funded by big food as the antithesis of what I'm trying to do.

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

So smart.

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

And let's be very clear.

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

I have so many amazing, wonderful registered dietitian friends that have seen it.

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

They've gone through it.

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

Well, they're getting the talking points.

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

They're getting the talking points from big food.

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

They're literally fighting for big food and some of them don't even realize it.

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

And so I pulled myself, so I finished my prereqs and then I pulled myself out of that program and I decided to get my master's of science in nutrition and integrative health.

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

And I found an integrative holistic program that taught me all the science.

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

I got all the schooling that I would have gotten under the dietetics program, but it was also, it was in a lens of root cause integrative holistic medicine.

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

The billboard, yeah.

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

I know.

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

They are.

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

They're fooled by a lot of these.

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

And, you know, it is interesting because I've actually had to be gluten-free for 14 years now, but I avoid a lot of those products that you're talking about.