Food Babe’s MAHA Mission | 2.2.25
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Make America Healthy Again champion RFK Jr. was grilled on Capitol Hill this week as part of his confirmation process to become Health and Human Services Secretary. Despite fierce opposition from some senators, parents and health advocates on both sides of the aisle have lined up to support him.
In this episode, we speak with Vani Hari, longtime food activist and New York Times bestselling author, who was in the room supporting Kennedy during his Senate hearings. She'll explain why she believes parents are finally winning the battle to get chemicals out of kids' food. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Sunday, February 2nd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. Joining us to discuss the war over chemical-laced packaged food is Vani Hari, best-selling author, activist, and creator of the Food Babe blog. Vani, thanks so much for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. So first off, tell me a little bit about your path to food activism. How did you become interested in nutrition to begin with?
Yeah, my parents came here as immigrants in the 1960s. And when they came to the United States, they were big on adopting the American culture. And so when my dad went back to have an arranged marriage to my mother in India, and they ended up coming here to live the rest of their life, the first thing he introduced her to was a McDonald's hamburger. And that's how I was raised on an American standard diet. We were one of the only Indian families in Charlotte at that point, Charlotte, North Carolina, where I grew up and where I live now. So everything was kind of handed to us in terms of what we should be eating. And my parents were very trusting of the American food system. And As a result, I was really sick as a child. I had eczema.
I had asthma. I was in and out of doctor's offices for most of my life. I was on so many prescription drugs. When my parents would take me to the doctors, they never asked them, what is she eating? What are you feeding her? They never asked about my diet. They just put me on the next medication. And that is how I grew up. In my early 20s, I hit rock bottom when I ended up in the hospital having to get my appendix taken out, one of my organs. At the time, they said, your appendix is something that you don't even need. It's an organ that just can come out. They made such a light situation out of it, but I started to question what the doctors were telling me, which is, why do we evolve and having an appendix first of all, but I wanted to find answers of like what happened to my appendix of why it was about to burst. And so when I started to research really what was happening in my body, I found out that I had extreme inflammation and that was coming from my diet.
And when I started to make changes shortly after that scare and that situation, I remember getting this one big book and in it, there was a concept in it that hit me like a ton of bricks. And it was that the majority of foods on the grocery store shelf are dead. They're not alive. And I was like, that's how I've felt for most of my life, like a zombie, not wanting to get up in the morning and go to school, not wanting to participate in activities and physical sport activities because I didn't have the energy because of my asthma. And so when I started to take the concepts in that book and apply them to my life, and I started to eat as much real living food as possible, things like fruits and vegetables and things that I would find at the farmer's market, My whole life changes. I mean, it was dramatic to the point where I lost all of the weight that I had put on as a result of this lifestyle.
But I also started to realize a level of health that I never thought was possible. I got off nine prescription drugs. And the people around me that grew up with me, my relatives, my friends, they were like, whoa. You have made a dramatic transformation in your appearance. What are you doing? We want a piece of what you're doing.
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