Vani Hari aka Food Babe - Feeding You Lies • Non-GMO vs. Organic • Life As A New Mom
Episode 281
Vani Hari (IG: @thefoodbabe) is a food activist, New York Times bestselling author of The Food Babe Way, and co-founder of Truvani. She was named one of the most influential people on the internet by Time magazine.
Encouraged by her friends and family, Vani started a blog called foodbabe.com in 2011. It quickly became a massive vehicle for change. Her blog has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, and General Mills that attracted more than 500,000 signatures and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies.
Today we're discussing Vani's new book, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Vani's life has changed since becoming a mother
- The backlash from the food industry after her first book
- Fighting against food policies that are making us sick
- Breaking free from the control of the food industry
- Being named Time magazine's most influential person on the internet in 2015
- Why Vani started a movement
- Food scientists complicate food
- How the food industry is manipulating us with the media
- The top 10 big players of the food industry
- Who is safety testing all the different chemicals in our food?
- The link between artificial flavours & cancer
- TBHQ preservative increases food allergies
- Avoid processed food as much as possible
- Unethical practices of the food industry
- Look beyond the headlines at who funded the study
- The truth about artificial sweeteners
- The problem with sugar-free products
- Lead by example
- What are obesogens?
- 7 major crops containing GMOs
- Glyphosate is carcinogenic
- What the non-GMO label really means
- The 3 different categories of organic
- Organic approved pesticides
- Always check the ingredients
- Natural flavor is created in a laboratory
- The inspiration behind Truvani
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Related links:
Vani Hari - Feeding You Lies (book)
Vani Hari's website (Food Babe)
Follow the Vani Hari on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Vani Hari - The Food Babe Way (book)
Truvani
Listen to Vani Hari previously on TUHP (episode #20)
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago