Paul Saladino
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The Shawn Ryan Show · #179 Paul Saladino - The FDA Approved Poison You Eat Every Day · 5 Mar 2025
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That if you provide a choice in some of the poorest communities in America between a Snickers bar and Doritos, and let's say an apple or a banana or an orange, most people are going to choose the Snickers bar and the Doritos. And that is a problem. So what do we do there? That's a good question. And I'll mention this because it's relevant. So in these poorest communities,
SNAP, which is food stamps, so Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is used significantly. So at a governmental level, I think we could help things by not allowing food stamps to be able to be used to buy junk food. So I think it's the food stamp budget, I think is $112 or $15 billion a year that goes out to people. 70 plus percent of that gets used by people on junk food.
That's the problem, right? That I think fixes a big part of this. If you disallow the use of food stamps for junk food, you make a big step in the right direction. Now, the argument on the other side is that that is classist, racist, or elitist, because these people don't have access to foods, right?
But the reason they don't have access is because they've made choices because they don't want those foods. So it's some combination, I think, of governmental programming change and actual education of people in these communities, potentially bringing them the good foods. The other thing I'll say about food stamps, which is crazy, is that 10% of those food stamps gets used on soda.
You cannot make an argument to me that Coca-Cola and other sodas have any redeeming quality in human health. Yeah. And 10% of food stamps go toward that. So at a governmental level, a top-down level— Surprise, not more. Surprise, not more. Yeah, right? So I think education could help, and I think that there's a lot of double standards.
And, of course, the reason for that is because Coca-Cola lobbies.
I think that... The programming of Americans is a really important thing to talk about. So we can talk about pharma because the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. And this is, again, we're talking about very disruptive ideas here.
If any of these got into practice, if we stopped allowing pharma ads on television, which I think we should, and hopefully this administration will consider, And I know Bobby is for this. And hopefully he gets confirmed like today or tomorrow, you know, on Monday or something. But that would single-handedly change the landscape because so many media companies would collapse.
The budget for CNN would be reduced. I mean, remember during Pfizer, that's what we call COVID now, it was Pfizer. Remember during COVID, which we're renaming Pfizer, there was this sort of meme or this video people made of all the different shows on CNN that were sponsored by Pfizer, whether it was Anderson Cooper, et cetera.
So you think about the budget for so many media news outlets and how much of that comes from pharmaceuticals. So disallowing pharmaceutical ads on television would change the media landscape. And I don't really... I wouldn't miss any of it. I think legacy media is horrible, and I think that they're just brainwashing people.
But what about, and this is just a suggestion, what about not allowing junk food to be advertised on television? How many ads are there for Frosted Flakes and Skittles? This food is not good for our children. It's not good for us. Why are we allowing... Nabisco to advertise for Oreos on television. Again, I think that I can hear people responding saying, it's free speech. I'm all for capitalism.
I'm not trying to return to a communist state or socialism, but I'm just thinking out loud. Is the marketing that we're seeing on television programming kids at a young age? Is it programming adults? I don't know where you draw the line, right? Does Domino's Pizza get to advertise on television? When I was growing up, there was Little Caesars and Papa John's.
You know, none of these foods, I can make a strong case that none of these foods are good for humans. And we can go down the list. But I think that there has been a concerted effort by these multinational processed food companies to shift blame away from them. And so Coca-Cola, this is really interesting. Coca-Cola has done some pretty sinister things. And this is just what I know about Coke.
I'm sure the other soda companies have done the same things. But Coca-Cola has funded hundreds of research studies. Coca-Cola has given millions of dollars. I think it might be in the hundreds of millions of dollars to universities to do research over the years. And what kind of research do they do? They do research on why junk food is not bad for you as long as you stay in energy balance.
And I think this idea of calories and energy balance is one of the most misleading concepts for Americans in our nutrition space. Coca-Cola actually funded something called the Global Energy Balance Network. And the whole idea here is you can eat junk food as long as you exercise. You can out-exercise a bad diet, Sean.
To me, this is completely false because there are so many components in the junk food that impair mitochondrial energy production. The simple fact of the matter, and I would love to debate anyone about this, and hopefully more of these will happen in a way that people can actually understand when we're doing the debates, but all calories are not created equally.
Weight loss does happen if you're in a caloric deficit. This is thermodynamics, right? Yes, you can lose weight eating 1500 calories of donuts per day. you will not be healthy and I guarantee you will be very hungry.
And when you stop keeping yourself in a calorie restricted prison, you will overeat and you will binge and you will gain that weight back because you have impaired your mitochondrial electron transport chain because of the poisonous, I would say toxic additives in these foods. So this is a crazy debate that happens on X and these forums. People will advocate All foods fit, Sean.
That is the rallying cry of dieticians all over the world. All foods fit, just don't eat too much. This is why things like Weight Watchers were created. And you see those little snack packs of Oreos and it says 150 calories. And it's okay to eat junk food as long as you don't exceed your caloric threshold.
What we're not being told is that additives, ingredients in these ultra processed foods impair our ability to make energy from them. They're poisonous. to our metabolism. They're poisonous to the very things that give us life as humans. We are sort of an anti-entropic process. Entropy is one of these laws of thermodynamics that all things in the universe tend toward disorder.
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