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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

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

Well, but you're right.

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

You're spot on because there are so many people that don't actually have... I have a wheat allergy, so I just can't have it.

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

But there are so many people that don't know any better and then they'll pick it up off the shelf and say, oh, gluten-free, it's going to be better for me.

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

Exactly.

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

And that's where it's a problem.

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

Well, what's concerning is that a lot of the gluten-free products are testing really high in glyphosate.

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

Oh, yeah.

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

The cassava.

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

I was bummed when I learned that because I was doing the cassava chips and I was making cassava tortillas and I stopped because of that.

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

Navigating this, I said this earlier to you, it's like a battlefield.

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

It really is.

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

And so I do, I have a lot of sympathy for people.

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

And yeah, so it's not to shame anybody because I didn't know either.

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

I had to do the digging.

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

And this is one of the things that I was really frustrated with.

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

And what made me want to get more involved in the political side of things is because I started learning how corrupt it was and also how hard it was to actually stay healthy and how to know how to navigate the grocery store because it's... I want to talk about the corruption because you're in the front lines of this and

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

Yeah, I would say, well, you know, I mean, this is an obvious one and we kind of touched on this, but I want to dig into it a little bit further.

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

Just trying to eat minimally out of boxes and packages as much as you possibly can.

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

I think it's unavoidable.