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Courtney Swan

👤 Speaker
2012 total appearances

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

We drive that with our money. I think people don't understand how much power we actually really have.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

They're gonna be forced to make that change for everyone else too.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

They're gonna be forced to make that change for everyone else too.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

They're gonna be forced to make that change for everyone else too.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And these American companies are making these for other countries. That's what drives me nuts about it.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And these American companies are making these for other countries. That's what drives me nuts about it.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And these American companies are making these for other countries. That's what drives me nuts about it.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

I know.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

I know.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

I know.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

But you know what that is actually? So Jason Carpigan was talking about this at our Senate hearing, and he was emailing back and forth with one of these companies. And the issue is that they have realized that the brightly colored cereals and brightly colored fruit snacks or whatever it is that they're adding those dyes into make them more appealing and addictive to children.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

But you know what that is actually? So Jason Carpigan was talking about this at our Senate hearing, and he was emailing back and forth with one of these companies. And the issue is that they have realized that the brightly colored cereals and brightly colored fruit snacks or whatever it is that they're adding those dyes into make them more appealing and addictive to children.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

But you know what that is actually? So Jason Carpigan was talking about this at our Senate hearing, and he was emailing back and forth with one of these companies. And the issue is that they have realized that the brightly colored cereals and brightly colored fruit snacks or whatever it is that they're adding those dyes into make them more appealing and addictive to children.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And so that's why they do it. So Trix actually famously a couple years ago, they announced, we're taking out all the artificial colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And so that's why they do it. So Trix actually famously a couple years ago, they announced, we're taking out all the artificial colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And so that's why they do it. So Trix actually famously a couple years ago, they announced, we're taking out all the artificial colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yeah. And they're like, we're going to use natural dyes, you know, to color them. Well, they're not as bright because they're colors made in nature. It's why when you see cereal, it's like fluorescent highlighter color. It's not colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yeah. And they're like, we're going to use natural dyes, you know, to color them. Well, they're not as bright because they're colors made in nature. It's why when you see cereal, it's like fluorescent highlighter color. It's not colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yeah. And they're like, we're going to use natural dyes, you know, to color them. Well, they're not as bright because they're colors made in nature. It's why when you see cereal, it's like fluorescent highlighter color. It's not colors.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yeah. It's like highlighter colors. They actually saw a dramatic drop in their sales because Trix was the only one that was doing it. And so they brought them back. So this is a large part of the issue is that these companies are digging their heels in because they're like, no, we're going to lose money off of the profit of these cereals.