Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 Feb
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If everyone was forced to, then the kids will just have to acclimate. And honestly, it will be so much better for them. The reason why they've banned them in places like the UK and Sweden is because they have recognized that these dyes cause hyperactivity in children. Talk to anyone who's an educator and who's been in the space for the last 20 years.
I can't tell you how many teachers DM me almost on a day-to-day basis. And they'll say, I've been working for, you know, 20 years as an educator and I have never seen so many behavioral issues ever in my life.
Oh, that condition largely didn't exist 50 years ago. That one really gets me.
I would say first and foremost, do an audit of your pantry and just start paying attention and reading ingredient labels. If you can do that one shift and start slowly swapping out a lot of your normal everyday food products that you're buying for ones that are made with real ingredients, you're going to be off to a great start. So I have a really, really simple hack for this.
When you're in the grocery store and you're reading a label, And you see all the ingredients in there. You never want to just look at the front. The front is a billboard for the package. They're just trying to sell it.
Yep, and I would say the more health claims they make on the front is usually a really red flag. So you'll learn, here's the thing. The first couple of times you do this, you'll probably spend a couple of hours in the grocery store, sorry.
But you get in a rhythm and then you kind of understand and then you know what foods you like and you kind of start to understand which ones are just the red flag.
Exactly. So my rule is if you can read, so read all those ingredients. If you could technically, if you wanted to make this product at home, I'm not saying you have to, but let's say that you were like, okay, if I wanted to make these crackers at home, could I buy every single one of those ingredients in the grocery store? I always use Simple Mills as an example. Simple Mills has rosemary extract.
It's made with almonds, just all whole real foods. You could technically buy every single one of those ingredients in the grocery store and put it in your cart and make those crackers at home if you wanted to.
Whereas alternatively, if you turn around something like Cheez-Its, it has BHT in there. It has some preservatives and some other crap in there that you're reading that. You're going, I have no idea where I would find BHT in the grocery store. Where would I find that in the grocery store? It doesn't exist.
So that would be something that I would say, put that one back on the shelf, look around. There's a lot of different alternatives now. If you're looking for a cheese like cracker, there's a couple of other brands now that are creating ones that are just made with real food ingredients. If you start doing something like that- That is, you're already going to be off to a great start.
Another one that I love to remind people, real food tastes amazing. Amazing. It is so good. Especially if you, you learn a couple of things that you love to make. You can repeat those, get, you know, follow some creators online that teach you how to make really simple, whole real food ingredient recipes. Also, you don't have to give up your favorite foods. We literally had burgers for lunch.
I eat burgers a couple of times a week.
It was delicious. It was so good. And this is what I remind people all the time. You don't have to give up your favorite foods, but make sure that when you're eating those foods, they're made with whole real food ingredients. So if you can't find a restaurant nearby that's using 100% Italian flour or whatever it is in their pizza dough, make pizza at home. Make those burgers at home.
Or find a really good burger place that has grass-fed burgers and beef tallow fries if you can find them. So that would be my second one.
you do not have to be restrictive. In fact, I have never had a healthier relationship with my food ever in my entire life. I've never had a healthier relationship with it because as long as it's real food, nothing is off the table for me. I don't feel like I'm like, oh, I can't have that cookie or whatever. I'm like, is it made with real ingredients? Great, I'm gonna have a cookie, love it.
That's my only restriction is that I want it to be made with real food. Whereas before when I was eating like slim fast bars and stuff, I was literally trying to like, oh, how many calories is in this? And, you know, like trying to track everything. And I don't even think of that way anymore.
And then I would say the last one is try to eat try to eat as many meals at home as you can. Because when you eat out, this is when you're gonna start seeing the additives and the seed oils and everything else. So try to eat as many meals at home as possible.
I think, oh, man, I have to think about this for a second. How do I want to answer this? I think to be an ultimate human is to live with your soul's purpose and also to live in integrity and always strive for the truth and to be the best you can for yourself and for everyone in your life and everyone that you love.
One of the main reasons that I got into healthy eating in the first place is because I knew what it felt like to feel really sick. I think a lot of people largely walk through life not even knowing how sick they actually are and how sick they actually feel because they have no comparison.
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