America's Health Crisis: How Our Food System Broke, Fraud in Health Studies and the Hard Money Fix
In this episode with Matthew Lysiak, author of Fiat Food, we discuss:
Why the food system broke along with money in the 1970s
Fraud in health and nutrition studies
Is meat bad for you?
Why do some cultures eat carbs like pasta and rice and not gain weight?
Why are foods made with different ingredients in the U.S. vs other countries?
Lucky Charms healthier than steak?! Tuft's Food Compass says so.
Can Bitcoin help address the root causes of these problems?
Bio: Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and a former reporter for the New York Daily News. He is also the author of Newtown: An American Tragedy and has appeared as a contributor on the Today show, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and countless other national and local media outlets to discuss his work. Order Fiat Food: https://www.amazon.com/shop/nataliebr...
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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 - Why Matthew decided to investigate the Agro-Industrial Complex
02:45 - Bitcoin Technologies Group
03:40 - Changing the food supply to maximize profits
06:30 - How the Nixon Shock led to fiat food
10:29 - Manipulating CPI to understate food inflation
12:30 - The anti-meat government propaganda
14:00 Conspiracy or broken incentives in Big Food?
18:02 MAHA Movement
21:20 Examples of health study fraud
25:30 Children and teens programmed to eat fiat food
30:00 Growing up eating Polish food
33:00 Sugar industry corruption
36:40 Why is fiat food addictive and difficult to lose weight?
38:50 Why can other nationalities eat carbs like pasta, pastries, rice?
42:35 Should we regulate food?
44:20 Saifedean's carnivore diet hack: McDonald's?!
48:00 Loma Linda and Blue Zones
53:00 What should people do to get healthier?
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