Vani Hari

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Modern Wisdom · Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies - Vani Hari - #867 · 21 Nov 2024 podcast

And I was so mad that I wrote an article called Chemical Filet or Chick-fil-A because it had close to 100 ingredients. I mean, that's just one of the problematic ingredients in Chick-fil-A, but several others. And it went so viral that the company reached out to me and invited me to their headquarters. And when they invited me to their headquarters, I had to take off from my regular day job.

When I initially was starting my blog, Food Babe, I was doing it just for my own passion. So it wasn't to make money or do anything like that. I was a banker. I was a consultant. That was my day job. And this is what I was passionate about and what I would write about in the evening and on the weekends.

And so when my article went viral and they invited me to headquarters to consult and I had to take off work, it was that moment that I was like, wait a minute, I'm consulting all these big financial institutions. This doesn't really mean much to me. But consulting with Chick-fil-A and changing their ingredients, that's real change. And like, wow, I could really change the food industry.

And that's when after that meeting and the subsequent changes that Chick-fil-A made as a result of that meeting convinced me that I should quit my job to do this full time.

So yeah, let's just talk about McDonald's. You've got McDonald's in the UK, three ingredients, and then salt is optional. Very simple. Here in the United States, it's over 14. And you've got the chemical called dimethylpolysiloxane. It's an ingredient that can be preserved with formaldehyde, according to the FDA, although there's no safety data on this chemical.

It's the main ingredient in Silly Putty. And when... When it's combined with TBHQ, which is another crazy chemical that's a preservative that you'll find in Reese's peanut butter cups here in the United States, but not in Japan. This TBHQ ingredient turns on your immune response. So you become more allergenic to your surroundings and in your environment.

And if you're already allergic to something, it triggers that.

So the TBHQ is a preservative for the oil and dimethylpolysiloxane is a anti-foaming agent so that they don't have to change the oil as often at fast food places. And dimethylpolysiloxane, by the way, is in a lot of fast food French fries, not just McDonald's. And this is something that you will also find, which When I did drink soda, I always thought a fountain soda always tasted better.

I don't know why. But you will find this in a fountain Diet Coke where you will not find it on the label of a Diet Coke that you buy in a bottle. But when it's coming out of a fountain, they add dimethylpolysiloxane to Diet Coke.

Well, first of all, I just want you to stop eating a Chick-fil-A.

Where do you live?

Okay. Gosh, you have so many good places to eat. Well, you can go to True Food Kitchen. You can go to Chipotle. Chipotle is a great option. They removed all GMOs as a result of one of my campaigns as well. And they have probably the least amount of chemicals in their food in terms of a fast food. Sweetgreen. Do you have Sweetgreen there? We have multiple. Yeah, they removed all seed oils.

That's a great option for a fast food.

Love Flower Child. A lot of their ingredients were organic. They've also removed most seed oils. I would also say make your own food, Chris. Come on. No, no, no.

Yeah. So let me just describe to you my favorite fast food, first of all. Whenever I am... Strap for time, this is my favorite fast food, a smoothie. And this is one of the reasons why I started my company, Truvani, where I created the protein powder with the least amount of unnecessary chemicals as possible with all real food.

And, you know, like our vanilla has five real ingredients, all that you would recognize. And so I start off with that, but then I add fresh greens, whatever I have growing in my yard. And if you don't have a garden, no big deal. Just buy greens from the store, celery, cucumber, lemon, ginger. And then I add fruit and sometimes avocado for a little bit of fat or some hemp seeds. And that's it.

And that shake is so delicious and so nutritious. It's got all of my vegetables. It's got the protein. It's got fruit. It's got everything, all the fiber that I need in there because everything's intact. It's in a smoothie. And I consume that. It takes me less than 10 minutes to make. And it's all real food ingredients. And it's fast.

It's much faster than going to the drive-thru and it's much better on your body. So that's my hack for fast food. And I almost have that every single day for lunch because I'm working through lunch. I have two kids. Things are busy, right? The second thing is When you're shopping at the grocery store, choose the perimeter.

You know, all the fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains like quinoa, oats, brown rice, or even regular rice is fine. Just choose organic because organic has less arsenic. pasture-raised eggs, pasture-raised or grass-fed cheese. I do a lot of goat cheese that I love because goat cheese is just easier to digest. I love any kind of yogurts that are grass-fed.

I love a coconut yogurt. If you're vegan, that's called Coco June. Great and so delicious. They have an unsweetened vanilla version. That's fantastic. I eat a lot of chia seeds, different nuts, and then meats. Make sure they're grass-fed, pasture-raised. You can order any kind of sustainable meat now on the internet and have it shipped to your door frozen and have it ready, stocked, good to go.

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