Dr. Mark Hyman

If you're eating with, you know, protein and vegetables, no problem.

So butter on your bread, bad.

Butter on your broccoli, good.

Whole foods matter far more than isolated nutrients.

Now, one of the things that was hinted at but not explicitly pointed out in the guidelines was that our policy matters and that our current health crisis is not a personal failure.

that it's not your fault if you're overweight, it's not your fault if you have diabetes or you have heart disease, it's because we live in a toxic food environment.

It's a toxic nutritional wasteland, a food swamp, it's bad.

And so how did we get there?

We got there through policies.

We got there through policies

by our government that were influenced by the food industry.

So chronic disease is a systemic problem.

It's not a moral failing.

There's decades of food policy that have favored cheap calories that subsidize corn and soy and wheat and a lot of the stuff that's turned into ultra-processed food and highly processed food.

We've been focusing on treatment, not prevention.

All that needs to change.

You know, we need to change our subsidies to support healthier food.

I mean, we spend 98% of our subsidies on commodity crops that are turned into highly processed or ultra processed food and 2% on fruits and vegetables.

Food labeling laws need to change.

Right now, if you read a food label, you have to be a PhD in nutrition.