Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And that's really led to inordinate amounts of confusion in the public sphere about what is healthy, how to get healthy, how to lose weight, and what food choices to make. And so at a governmental top-down level, which is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime, we have this incredible opportunity to reform those agencies and actually start teaching people
Starting with school lunches and the USDA nutritional dietary guidelines, what real food looks like and what really is healthy, and it's not that complicated at all. It's so simple.
Well, you know that the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two companies in the world that allow pharma advertising on television. It's just an insane thing. Why is a drug company circumventing your doctor? That relationship is sacrosanct. Why is a drug company getting to tell you what you should be asking your doctor about it? I'm a doctor. I'm a traditionally trained medical doctor.
So when a patient comes to your office and says, doctor, I want this drug. it's kind of hard for the doctor to say no if the drug is in some way indicated. It puts a lot of pressure on the doctor that they shouldn't have. And it's not the right way to do things.
And a lot of times doctors who on average get around seven to eight minutes with every patient in this insurance-driven model that really hamstrings doctors in a way that's very strange and limits their amount of care time with every patient, A lot of doctors are kind of stuck and just say, I just need to get the patient.
I just need to give the patient something so they walk out of my office happy, which isn't the way it should be. But that's the situation we've created for doctors. So to stop pharma advertising would simply be incredible. It would be a really great step in the right direction. And whatever... companies go out of business, they should be out of business in the first place.
They shouldn't actually exist, I don't think.
So I think that I'll give you a maxim that I think is very simple for people in the health conversation about how to select a food that's healthy. And we can go from there because your question is well taken. It's very difficult to know who to listen to. So just think about it this way.
When you see food in a grocery store, wherever you're eating food, because people eat food in grocery stores, they eat food in convenience stores, they eat food in fast food restaurants. The first rule is, Just eat a single-ingredient food. If you're eating meat and eggs and milk and fruit and vegetables, you will be healthy.
I mean, show me the person who eats single-ingredient foods and is not healthy. Secondly, if you're eating a food with a label on it, with an ingredient label, if your great-grandmother would not recognize any of the ingredients on that label, put it down. And beyond that, you're going to do pretty darn good.
Yeah, yeah.
Right. So let me just read the ingredients on these mini Chips Ahoy, right? So you've got this unbleached enriched flour. I don't think your great-grandmother would recognize unbleached enriched flour. If it said flour, she might recognize it. And that unbleached enriched flour is wheat flour plus niacin, plus reduced iron, plus thiamine, plus mononitrate vitamin B1, which is thiamine.
And then you got riboflavin as an ingredient. And then you've got sugar, which your grandmother might actually recognize, and we can talk about the ins and outs of sugar. And the next thing is soybean and or canola oil. And your great-grandmother wouldn't even know what soybean or canola oil were because they didn't exist until around 100 years ago.
So these ingredients were not even part of the human food supply until 1911 with Crisco. That was from Procter & Gamble. We can talk about seed oils. Then you have palm and palm kernel oil. She probably wouldn't recognize that. Cocoa processed with alkali, maybe. High fructose corn syrup, she would definitely not recognize because that's another very recent ingredient in the human diet.
You've got salt, she might recognize salt. Dextrose, baking soda, she would see. Milk, soy lecithin, she would not know what soy lecithin is. Natural and artificial flavor, she would not know what that is. And caramel color. So probably 85% of the ingredients on this label she wouldn't recognize.
There's nothing here that I would eat.
Absolutely not.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
No, definitely not. Why not? Those are full of seed oils. So let's look at the ingredients in Pringles. So you've got, oh man, they make it so hard to read. You've got dried potatoes, all right? Then you've got vegetable oil, which is, again, corn, cottonseed, or high oleic soybean, and what does it say here? I can't even read it. They make it so hard to read. Then it's- Is that the one here?
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