FDA Redefines Healthy Food

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The f d A is out with a new definition
of healthy food that I actually like, and I wish
they'd go more this direction. So they were cracking down
on manufacturers calling their food healthy, and back in they
wrote some rules. You can't put healthy on your product
if you have too much fat content. Meaning we've talked

(00:20):
about this a lot, and goes back to some studies
in the sixties funded by the serial companies. So somehow
we got off track and decided sugars okay, fats bad,
and down with fat, up with sugar, up with carves.
And we did that for decades and decades before we're
finally starting to catch onto the fact that sugar is

(00:42):
really really evil and there's plenty of fat that ain't
that bad. But um, So they've changed the definition of
healthy the way it was before. It was focused only
on fat content. So if your health your food was
too fatty, you couldn't call it healthy. Sugary cereal could pass,
but not salmon or avocados fris because of the fat
content in there. Wow. For instance, the FDA told Kind,

(01:08):
which if you buy snack bars, you're familiar with the
brand kind. Um, they told Kind they couldn't call some
of the snack bars healthy due to the saturated fat content.
Kind argued, Yeah, we've got fat in our product. It
comes from nuts. This lad for a push for an
updated definition, and because of the world works so slow,
that argument in finally got resolved now, and so nuts

(01:30):
don't count nuts and seeds don't count towards saturated fat
limits in healthy products. So you can have something that's
mostly nuts and whatever, it's got fat and you don't
have to you can call it healthy. So frosted flakes
were healthy, and salmon was not. Or a or a
or a bar that's got a bunch of nuts in
it because I had too much fat in Thank you

(01:53):
a federal government for helping me manage my life. You
know what you did. You picked up the mic I dropped,
and you had another drop the mic moment. Wow, I
picked it up off the floor, then throw it down again. Right,
that's the mind blowing. Not given the fact that we
were all eating margarine when I was a kid at

(02:15):
the government's insistence, it's not that surprising. And then I
just I look around me and see so many people.
I want the federal government to have more and more
power over our lives. And I just want to slap them. Well,
I guess that's the belief that the government was stupid
back then. They're not stupid now, not my political heroes.
They would never be. And in the time period, I'm

(02:38):
glad you pointed that you pretty much picked up the
mic and then booted it across the stage. How the
now I almost did it. I almost dropped it. Holy cow, wow,
I gotta check myself. How the darned heck could that
take seven years? To stretton straight? Now right? Bark strong

(03:03):
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