What’s Really in Our Food? How to Break Free From a Broken Food System with Courtney Swan
Update: 2025-09-10
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Episode Highlights With Courtney
- Why this conversation is so important right now, and why 74% of adults are obese or overweight and over 50% of kids are
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease didn’t even exist decades ago, and it's now rampant
- Her own journey into health and wellness
- The biggest offenders and contributors to why we're seeing this drastic rise
- 60% of Americans’ diets are coming from ultra-processed foods
- The real problem with food dyes and the sneaky places they're hiding
- Links between food dyes and behavioral issues, cancer, and why most countries have banned them
- Why glyphosate is such a big problem
- Misleading food labeling and the illusion of choice
- The real deal on vegetable oils and how these are impacting our food supply
- Look at what has changed so much in the last 50 years in our food supply- our genes don’t change that fast
- 20% of Americans' calories come from seed oils
- The role of big agriculture and government subsidies
- Understanding GMOs and how they impact us
- We're only as healthy as our soil is
- Count chemicals, not calories- why we are overfed and under nourished
- Two great films on this: Common Ground and Kiss the Ground
Resources We Mention
- Her Instagram
- Realfoodology - Website
- Realfoodology - Podcast
- Common Ground Documentary
- Kiss the Ground Documentary
- My Health Forward - Regenerative Farms
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