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Courtney Swan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2012 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

Something is wrong here with our food supply.

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

And majority of us don't know about it.

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

If I didn't know about it and I grew up in a pretty healthy home, how does anybody else know about it?

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

So I just felt this deep desire to go back to school and study nutrition.

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

So my undergrad was just a bachelor of communications.

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

And so I went back and got my master's of science in nutrition.

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

And while I was doing that, I created Real Foodology because I just needed this outlet.

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

And at the time, I didn't think it was going to become anything.

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

I just was writing these little blogs saying, hey, this is what's happening in our food right now.

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

And then it exploded into what it is now.

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

I know, it's unfortunate.

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

Well, they're not using the same processing practices that we are.

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

And also there's a lot of, so a lot of it has to do with their flour, I think.

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

So I'm not an expert on this per se, but I do know that they take pride, especially with their bread and their pasta.

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

They take major pride on how they source it and where they get it from.

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

So it's all Italian grown and they're very specific about the pesticides and herbicides that they use.

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

Yes, exactly.

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

So that's a really big one.

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

The only one I don't know is if they enrich their flour, but I don't think that they do.