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April 3, 2025 29 mins

The Food Pyramid Lie: How Big Tobacco Built Our Diets

This episode is a mic-drop moment for anyone who's ever looked at the food pyramid and thought, "Wait... this doesn’t seem right."

What if your morning bowl of “heart-healthy” cereal was the product of the same industry that sold us cigarettes as medicine? In this jaw-dropping episode, Dr. Tim and Mia Scott dig deep into the shady origins of the U.S. food pyramid – and what they uncover will change the way you see your plate forever. 

From Big Tobacco’s pivot to processed foods, to sugar-funded science and government-backed manipulation, they reveal how decades of dietary guidelines were built on addiction, lobbying, and profit—not health.

If you're ready to question what you've been fed (literally), this is your wake-up call. No fluff. Just facts. And a few laughs along the way.

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