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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

He's rewriting the dietary guidelines, which were, you know, as of right now, the ones that are written are over 200 pages.

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

No one's ever going to read all that, first of all.

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

Second of all, it was largely written by industry.

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

So it really, yeah, it just allowed industry to dictate what our dietary guidelines were.

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

South Park, they're genius.

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

It's really funny.

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

And it has been needed to be reevaluated for so long.

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

He's working on that right now.

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

It's going to be like four pages written with Americans' health in mind, not written by industry.

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

So that's going to be a huge win.

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 they're encouraging eating a lot of ultra-processed foods that should never have been in there in the first place.

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

Yeah.

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

And shockingly enough, I hear a lot of people say, oh, no one really follows that.

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

What is written by the government and then pushed out through nutritionists and RDs and hospitals and nursing homes, they all go by that.

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

The mainstream gets all the talking points from that.

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

And so they're going to rewrite all of that to really help guide Americans that are, Americans are just generally very confused on what to eat.

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

We've just spent an entire episode on how to navigate that.

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

What do you eat?