February 24, 2025 • 28 mins
HDF dives into everyones fear of MAHA and reusing shopping bags.
We also tackle important societal issues, especially about our children’s health through discussions on school lunch programs and their nutritional value. Could the food kids eat in schools relate to broader health trends we observe today? As we dive into these pressing topics, we consider the responsibilities of adults in both guiding and educating kids amidst the noise of rapidly changing digital landscapes.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to Triggered with your host HDF, an
opinionated Enneagram 8propagandist of health and
fitness and pundit onprovocative topics and current
events.
Let's get Triggered, let's gettriggered and welcome to episode
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five.
I know you've been anxiouslyawaiting that.
We got a little bit behind thisweek, but we are back, got a
hot topic today.
I can't wait to get a littlebit of response on this one.
I don't think we'll be canceled, but I think there'll be some
chatter, some people gettingtheir undies in a ruffle, so to
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speak.
Now let's just get logging onhere.
This is completely unrelated butthe algorithm of your social
media, let's call it Instagram.
Today, I want you to.
When you're sitting next tosomeone today, I want you to
look at them, look across theroom at them and just think how
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terrible the algorithm becomesin your Instagram once you have
one bit of curiosity towardssomething and it doesn't even
have to be a healthy curiosity.
It could just be like somethingthat you are disgusted by,
nothing that you're interestedin.
But if you look at it once,just long enough, the algorithm
knows.
Oh, and if you share that withsomeone, even just to say this
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is appalling, it's there.
So you go in that for you areayour explore page, if you will,
of social media, of Instagram.
I mean, there are somedisturbing things out there.
I got to think that somebody ismaking a lot of money off that
Like.
This is the day and age wherepeople with handicaps or you
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know I don't know if we can saythat, but you know missing limbs
maybe have a Tourette's.
Even there's a very famousBailey right.
She's probably making tons ofmoney.
There are people with certainthings out there that are just
blowing up.
As soon as you stare at them,them for one second, and even if
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it's an amazement or disgust,you're gonna get that.
And uh, I guess it's just.
If you look across the room atsomeone, you just know that I
bet their explorer's reallymessed up.
They're just, you know, theright, straight edge kind of you
know white collar, kind ofstraight person that walks down
the street.
But I'm telling you there'ssomeone that's making dough
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maybe a sour dough with theirfeet because they have no arms
on their social media page,because one time they looked at
it a little bit longer than theyshould have, and this is
something to think about.
So maybe you're just sittingnext to your friend someday Say,
hey, man, can you open up thatphone?
Let me just see your explorepage real quick.
Let me just see how dementedyou are.
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They're going to be horrified.
I mean, I'm past horrified.
I laugh at mine now because Ican probably trace back that one
time.
It takes a while.
It takes a while to reset thatalgorithm.
Go look at oceans and fishiesand nature pictures for about a
month just to get rid of thatsourdough baker with the pretty
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toes.
It's going to take a while, allright.
Well, I was just thinking thisis the topic we're going to get
into.
I'm turned 50, I'm over 50.
You get people around you.
People die.
You realize your kids are justin this.
You're just in this moment withyour kids.
It's not gonna be forever, notto be depressing, but you just
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kind of accept there are biggerthings and sadder things in life
than some things that otherpeople do.
So you just kind of like rollwith things.
I've definitely kind of gotmore used to.
People that know me are goingto tell me I'm lying just
because you're in my bubble andI tell you things one to one
when I'm out in the world, I doallow certain things to happen.
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I might laugh through it.
I may think that's a ridiculousthing, but I got to think that
there's bigger things in thisworld that I need to deal with
than what someone's opinion was.
What someone said I don't know,just laugh at some people, just
be happy that we have theability to see different things.
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Okay, and I guess that's whatthis this is angle is going
today is about acceptingdifferent things and having fun
with it.
All right, they're the peoplethat bring their own bags to the
grocery store.
If you're listening today andyou bring your own bag to the
grocery store, you are gross.
You're gross.
Maybe this is part of yourcommunity that you live in,
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maybe that's a I don't knowCalifornia maybe does something
like that.
Colorado, certain areas.
Maybe they charge you a littlebit for a bag.
You could charge me a dollarfor every bag plastic bag that I
use in a grocery store.
You could charge me $5.
I'm not bringing my own bag tothe store, all right, so you
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think you're saving the worldwith your little E coli-filled,
disgusting bag for your organickale that, if we go down that
road, kale's disgusting anddoesn't do any good for you.
Don't quote me on that, I'm nota doctor.
But ew, if you're going tobring your own bag, just know
that I'm looking at you, I'mlaughing at you, I'm disgusted
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by you.
You're probably changing myalgorithm as we speak, but I
don't hate you.
I love that you're able tobring your bag.
I love that I get to watch youbring your bag and maybe you
read something that told youyou're saving the world one
plastic bag at a time and youfeel good about that.
I'm happy that that brings youjoy.
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I'm happy that I'm allowed tolaugh at you being brought joy
by that.
But that's where we're at.
So this week, last week,whatever week it was, I think
it's calmed down just a littlebit.
But oh, the mahas, the mahatriggers came out, came out.
Everyone was freaked out byclean water and healthy children
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or whatever.
That was about, right.
I mean, oh, I don't know, wejust everyone was lost their
minds and I kind of look at itlike the bag at the grocery
store, like somebody wants tobring their bag.
You might think it's gross, Ithink it's gross, but I don't
know.
You want to do it.
Knock yourselves out, right?
I mean this isn't evenpolitical, right?
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I know that people would sayit's not political.
They are political.
I really mean, this is notpolitical.
There's no one to me that'slike this guy that stepped in
here.
He's not.
It's not a political thing forme.
I hate politics.
I really do.
Do I have beliefs?
They're all over the place,okay, um, every side is bonkers,
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right, we don't need if anybodywho accepts a hundred percent
of one side or the other is outof their minds and we don't need
that kind of negativity, right?
That's not what we're here for.
But you know, you have to becurious as an adult.
You owe it to the world, youowe it to your family, you owe
it to yourself to be curious,and that means not sitting and
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staring at a TV all day,especially one channel, unless
it's like an old TV.
Yesterday I started watchingQuincy.
Now I'm really dating myself.
Quincy gosh, that was like 1976to, I want to say, 1983.
Man, I was young, but Iremember Quincy.
Jack Klugman, look it up.
If you're staring at that allday, have at it.
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But you know what I mean.
If it's just a one-sided TVshow that you're watching all
day, you owe it to yourself toget up, turn the channel, turn
it off, go, walk down the streetand talk to 10 different people
today.
Right, get out there.
And I'm curious.
And one of my things I'm curiousabout health and wellness,
right, this is kind of where Ifelt myself drawn for a long
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time, even before I got quoteunquote into it.
I've always been drawn to it.
Right, I will take, and I'veprobably taken a hundred
different supplements on and off.
I see a commercial for it, Itake it.
If I hear a guy in a podcasttalk about it, I take it.
If someone passes by me andsays, have you tried this?
If I hear a guy in a podcasttalk about it, I take it.
If someone passes by me andsays, have you tried this?
I'll take it.
It's trial and error and to methat's curiosity.
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I'm not going to look at someoneand say, oh, you're completely
wrong, without actually havingsome sort of idea that in my
opinion, they're wrong and I'lltry it out.
I mean, you know who you areout there.
All right, ready, I'm going toget a bunch of you, those people
taking apple cider vinegar oh,my goodness, Are you still
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taking apple cider vinegar?
If you are, what do they say?
If you are, you need some facecream because you gotta be old.
You are out of your mind.
If you think this apple cidervinegar is doing anything for
you except giving you bad breathand a nasty burp, okay, but
have I tried that?
Sure, I did.
Years ago.
I tried that Nonsense Did itSaid, well, that's lame.
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You might think it works and inyour brain I did this and I
felt like a million bucks.
Go for it If that effect makesyou happy in life.
But look how I got to try it.
You got to try it and I got tolearn that it's complete
nonsense for me and you think itworks for you.
Have at it, I don't care.
You're bringing your bags tothe grocery store and I'm not,
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but we both end up withgroceries.
Right, it's fine.
Except mine doesn't haveorganic kale and I do eat.
Well, I eat clean, I try to eatorganic.
I filter my water.
I avoid toxins, right?
Do you guys have that Yuka app,y-u-k-a?
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Go out there and get it.
It'll send you down rabbitholes, but you can scan food
products and you can scancosmetics and there's just
little toxins in everythingadditives, what have you and
it'll tell you what's in it.
I mean, some of it might tellyou that it's completely
hazardous.
Sucralose will always send itin the red and spinning.
Some of you are okay withsucralose.
Uh, is this good for your gut?
Probably definitely not, butyou get to make the choice of
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like ah, I'm going to go withsucralose.
I don't think it's that bad,but it's a great thing to use
when you're just trying to doyour best, and that's really all
we can do is try to do our best.
We are in this world of constantinformation.
Do you realize how lucky we are?
Our parents didn't have this.
No one before us had this.
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Our kids will never know whatit's like not to think of
something and have the answer,and answer immediately.
How amazing is that?
So I think that, as an adult,our kids are doing it.
Our kids are constantly lookingup stuff and learning stuff,
and who knows what they're goingto learn?
They can be swayed one way orthe other just based on their
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exploration.
Right, we can absorb this stuff24-7.
Now, some people you know whoyou are you can just sit there
and absorb hundreds of pieces ofinformation, and some people
and you know who they are canreally only handle one or two at
a time.
Welcome to the world.
We're all a little bitdifferent as far as our uptake
on information right.
Some are smarter than others.
Some of can really only handleone or two at a time.
Welcome to the world.
We're all a little bitdifferent as far as our uptake
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on information right.
Some are smarter than others.
Some of them are stronger thanothers.
Some of them are faster thanothers.
We all have our talents.
Oh, but goodness, enter RFK.
Oh, there it is.
Rfk comes in and everyone losestheir minds.
What are we doing Now?
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He has opinions on things andsome people got really mad about
his opinions.
Listen, there are some thingsthat he's.
I'll give you one.
There was one thing aboutsomething like brain.
The brainwaves of your cellphone are going to kill you,
wi-fi or whatever.
Now, some people out there mightthink that, and I might think
maybe, but based on what I'veseen, everyone's not running
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around with a tumor in theirhead and I think it's probably
not.
Look, I can take a piece ofinformation and I can let it go.
Everybody out there, try to letit go.
If you have taken hundreds ofpieces of information and you
made an opinion, just run withthat opinion and everyone else
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let it go.
In a hated sort of way.
Let it go and say at least Ihave the opportunity to be
different than that person.
You're not forced to do that,right?
But you also have to acceptthat every piece of information
has an angle and some people sayno, some people say they're
non-biased.
But you owe it to I start offin the beginning.
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You owe it to yourself to becurious, okay.
And if you're curious enough,you're going to take a piece of
information and you might wantto do research on that and find
out where the information camefrom, and you can accept where
that information came from andstill hold that opinion.
That's okay.
I can think that the opinion isnot valid based on where it
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came from, because humans that'swhat's crazy that we can do
that Everyone is paid.
Everything you see, everythingyou do, everyone is paid and
that's okay.
I mean it's not okay, but it'sokay because it's just
ubiquitous, right.
Everything is.
And more money, more influence,right?
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Let's?
Just my bone that I love topick at are kids.
I don't care what adults do, Ireally don't, I don't.
We went through a pandemic.
If an adult wanted to do thisor do that, let them do it.
I always defended a kid and youdon't have to have kids to
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defend kids.
But you've got to think of kids.
They are the most naive emptyslates in the world.
And if you think about it, ifyou're as old as I am, how we
just went in the woods and wewent on the streets and we
walked miles without our parentseven knowing we did so many
things that we explored, we hadno clue and we just absorbed the
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world naturally.
And unfortunately, now withelectronics and social media,
our kids are getting force-fedmore things sooner than they
really should before theirbrains adapt.
So I feel like I can project mychildhood on my kid.
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Now listen, kids are property.
I get it.
My kids can do my kids.
But if I feel like a kid iswronged, I'm going to do my best
not to step on someone else'stoes, not to step on a parent's
toes, not to call out a parentand be mean to a parent, but
just advocate for kids.
Kids today are a mess.
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They're a mess.
If you go into a school and I'mgoing to go with public school
my kids go to public school,right, not going to the private
school.
But so I have to deal with thepublic school.
They're a mess.
Kids are inactive okay, schoolis made to make them inactive
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public school.
Okay, they're overweight andeveryone hates to admit that,
but they are.
They're inactive and they'reoverweight and, as you know, as
an adult you want to lose weight, right.
You kind of have to check whatgoes in your mouth first before
you start hitting the gym.
Gym's great, activity's great,but your mouth is what's going
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to change your life.
Kids are eating garbage and ifyou want to go down a rabbit
hole of information again,believe it, don't believe it.
But if you go, read ingredientsfrom today versus when, let's
go 25 years ago, the food isdifferent.
Of course it's different.
We've grown, we've gottenhigher technologies, we've
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figured out shortcuts.
Work smarter, not harder.
You really can't blame the foodcompanies so much.
I mean you want to, but what dothey owe you?
They owe you a food.
They don't owe you anything,that's, if it's not killing you
and you're eating it, who dothey care you?
You owe the world to be curious.
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So be curious.
Okay, the food we ate back thenis not the same as we are now.
If you're denying that, thenyou are still staring at the one
channel on the TV.
Okay, if someone wants to giveinformation about that and you
don't read it, well, it's on you.
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You're lacking the curiosity,you don't have to buy into it.
But wouldn't you want to hearsomething possible that,
especially if it's your kids,something possible that,
especially if it's your kids?
If someone came to me and saidthis is something that's
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destroying kids, I am readingand listening to every word of
it.
I might close it and say you'reout of your mind.
But you bet your butt I'mlistening to it.
Okay, you go to school.
There's no nuts.
Thank goodness there's no nuts.
We know about the nut kids.
Nothing against the nut kids.
I feel terrible for them.
Can you imagine not being toenjoy a Reese's peanut butter
cup?
And if you say Reese's, justturn this off and unfollow me
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because it's not Reese's.
That makes my ears bleed.
It's Reese's.
Okay, but we're safe.
No nuts.
There's signs on the door nonuts in this classroom.
Please don't bring nuts in.
But you know what's in a school,a public school?
Doritos, okay, pop tarts, I amnot kidding you.
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Cheetos, yeah, that's right.
No nuts, that kid's safe.
But go into the snack room.
Go into the lunchroom and seewhat kids are eating.
Okay, into the snack room.
Go into the lunchroom and seewhat kids are eating.
Okay, they're eating Doritosand Pop-Tarts at four o'clock
every day the public school thatmy kid goes to.
They open a snack box.
They open a snack box and theysay eat this.
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You've been trapped in yourprison all day and had 20
minutes of running around wherethey were told to not talk and
to focus, and they hand themDoritos at four o'clock Okay.
Then they immediately say sitdown, we need quiet for a couple
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minutes.
So you took a kid out of prisonI mean school all day.
You fed them Doritos and thentold them to sit down and then
gets reprimanded for talking andacting out.
These kids want to play, okay,and you just fed them the
chemicals and the type of foodsthat make kids hyperactive.
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Right, gives them that ADD.
Oh, but there's no nuts.
Thank goodness.
If you could protect the nut kid, why can't we protect every kid
?
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
But let's get triggered by Maha.
Let's get triggered by listen.
If it was just called a healthinitiative, then maybe less
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people would be triggered.
I get it.
It's very polarizing the wayit's been labeled.
I'm polarized by it.
I get it.
But we've got to just let thetitle pass and understand that
it's undeniable what we'relooking at with our own eyes.
We are messing with kids beyondbelief.
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As an adult, you can take thesame steps, but if you don't,
that's on you.
Guess what?
You don't live as long to seeyour kid grow up.
You're 50 years old Congrats.
You might have 20, 25 yearsleft.
Maybe you'll see your grandkidsfor five minutes.
That's on you.
That's fine, but we cannot takeour kids down that path.
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During this whole news cycle andeveryone being triggered by our
friend, someone stood up onstage behind a microphone and
declared that the NationalSchool Lunch Program is based on
science.
With a straight face, toldAmerica and anyone else who's
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listening that the NationalSchool Lunch Program that's
public school kids, nationalSchool Lunch Program is based on
science.
How did we get this far?
How did we get this far?
We've all heard about the foodpyramid and how backwards it is.
Grains are on the base of it.
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You know that's not trueanymore.
We all have learned If this isyour first day learning that
welcome Grains as a primary foodsource is completely bogus.
You need protein.
Protein is the number onemacronutrient in your entire
life.
For everything that you do,protein is 150%, the number one
thing that you need to get.
I don't know where you want toget that.
Some people are against meat.
Some people want the meatalternatives.
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That's another rabbit hole youcan go be curious about that.
If you're eating the meatalternatives, you probably bring
your bags to the grocery storeand that's gross.
They're both gross.
Let me just read a little bitfor you about the National
School Lunch Program.
This is a little blurb.
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It's available on the internets.
There are requirements of howmuch servings per week, how many
servings per week you'resupposed to have, and a minimum
per day that you're supposed tohave.
Okay, so, for instance, fivecups of milk a week.
Like five cups of milk, right.
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Five days, five cups of milk,so minimum one cup a day.
Eight ounces of milk.
I'm all right with milk.
Milk's great.
Have at it.
It's low fat milk, which Ithink is nonsense.
You should be drinking full fatmilk, because we've all learned
that fat is not a problemaround here.
Now let's go to the meats.
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Now we learn that the pyramid'snonsense and we know that
protein's the most important.
I would say that a kid, that's Kthrough five and TBH a K
through forever.
I was growing through college.
You need protein.
They're growing, so you havethese growing plants, trees,
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whatever you want to call thesechildren.
Okay, they need protein.
Your public school, k throughfive has to have eight to 10
servings per week of protein orprotein alternative.
Okay, with a minimum of oneserving.
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Okay, one serving, let's justgo with one serving.
Your kid goes to school andthey have their one serving.
So maybe this day is I don'tknow it's the pizza day.
Everyone has that pizza day.
Minimum credible serving is .25ounces .25 ounces, 0.25 ounces.
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So go out there.
No nuts, don't give those nuts,but let's go with the Doritos
and 0.25 ounces of meat ormeat alternative.
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Oh, good God, if it's meatalternative, what is happening?
You've got to do your research,figure out how to feed your
kids.
We do our best 80-20, right?
I hate it and sometimes I can'twin the fight, but there are
battles through the entire day.
If your kid's at school, youown breakfast, you own dinner,
maybe you even own their snacks,okay, you've got to find a way
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to negate that.
Okay.
But when someone comes in hereand tells you that they want to
reform the school lunch programand you say, oh, it's based on
science, you need to do theresearch.
Okay,do it.
I'm going to leave you withthis.
I have a chart that a friendsent me and I'm just going to
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read off a few things.
I know we don't like readingoff things it kind of takes us
away from my wonderfulpersonality.
But it's been spreading on theand I think what it was.
This chart was meant to be anegative towards that healthy
movement.
Okay, there's been a lot oftalk about dyes and chemicals in
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food and by telling America weneed to take that on, I think
this chart was put out againstit and I look at it as a
positive reinforcement of thewhole healthy movement.
It's a pie chart and it sayschemicals in food and it's in
quotes because we're not allowedto say real chemicals because
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we'd be admitting fault, right.
So we put chemicals in quotesand it's a little sliver of a
pie little sliver, I mean, it'sprobably one, I don't know one
60th of a pie.
And inside the pie there arelifestyle factors.
No kidding, okay, we all knowthe lifestyle factors.
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If your lifestyle is terrible,the chemicals are just adding to
it.
But if you are trying to live abetter life, those chemicals
are going to be very importantto
you so.
Lack of exercise not planningright.
Plan your every day.
My kid walks out of here.
I go here's a snackhigh-protein snack.
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Plan right.
Plan your Every day.
My kid walks out of here.
I go here's a snackhigh-protein snack.
Plan right.
Poor sleep your kids go toschool too early.
School that begins before 8o'clock is absolutely absurd for
a growing child.
Coaches out there, you listento me oh, your little 5 am, 5.30
practices.
You think you're tough.
You're doing kids a disserviceand you're hurting their brains
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and you're hurting theirschoolwork.
You're hurting a lot of things.
Let your kids sleep right.
You have your parentsoverworking.
There's also socioeconomicfactors here.
We all understand that.
We're notdenying that.
Stress your kid can have stress.
You could put stress on yourkid.
Your job stress can be passeddown right.
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And choosing processed,convenient foods that lack
nutrition, obviously.
So you want to choose processed, convenient foods that lack
nutrition.
Of course those are bad andthose are the ones with the
chemicals.
So anyway, there are lots oflifestyle factors that come into
play.
Chemicals are a small part ofthat.
But my final words are asadults, even as kids if you're a
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teen kid, if you're a young kid, stay off the internet.
Don't do anything stupid.
Don't have opinions on anything.
Trust your parents hopefully,that are being curious.
Go out there, hear both sidesof it.
Hear all sides of it.
Try something.
Give it a week.
If it doesn't look like it'sgoing to kill you, give it a
week or two.
Give it a month.
See what happens.
But for the love of everything,please be curious out there.
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Stop being triggered by someonewho wants to be healthy,
because you should be healthy.
Healthy.
America is a good America andwe'll talk to you next time.
Welcome to Triggered with your host HDF, an
opinionated Enneagram 8propagandist of health and
fitness and pundit onprovocative topics and current
events.
Let's get Triggered, let's gettriggered and welcome to episode
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five.
I know you've been anxiouslyawaiting that.
We got a little bit behind thisweek, but we are back, got a
hot topic today.
I can't wait to get a littlebit of response on this one.
I don't think we'll be canceled, but I think there'll be some
chatter, some people gettingtheir undies in a ruffle, so to
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speak.
Now let's just get logging onhere.
This is completely unrelated butthe algorithm of your social
media, let's call it Instagram.
Today, I want you to.
When you're sitting next tosomeone today, I want you to
look at them, look across theroom at them and just think how
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terrible the algorithm becomesin your Instagram once you have
one bit of curiosity towardssomething and it doesn't even
have to be a healthy curiosity.
It could just be like somethingthat you are disgusted by,
nothing that you're interestedin.
But if you look at it once,just long enough, the algorithm
knows.
Oh, and if you share that withsomeone, even just to say this
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is appalling, it's there.
So you go in that for you areayour explore page, if you will,
of social media, of Instagram.
I mean, there are somedisturbing things out there.
I got to think that somebody ismaking a lot of money off that
Like.
This is the day and age wherepeople with handicaps or you
(02:03):
know I don't know if we can saythat, but you know missing limbs
maybe have a Tourette's.
Even there's a very famousBailey right.
She's probably making tons ofmoney.
There are people with certainthings out there that are just
blowing up.
As soon as you stare at them,them for one second, and even if
(02:26):
it's an amazement or disgust,you're gonna get that.
And uh, I guess it's just.
If you look across the room atsomeone, you just know that I
bet their explorer's reallymessed up.
They're just, you know, theright, straight edge kind of you
know white collar, kind ofstraight person that walks down
the street.
But I'm telling you there'ssomeone that's making dough
(02:48):
maybe a sour dough with theirfeet because they have no arms
on their social media page,because one time they looked at
it a little bit longer than theyshould have, and this is
something to think about.
So maybe you're just sittingnext to your friend someday Say,
hey, man, can you open up thatphone?
Let me just see your explorepage real quick.
Let me just see how dementedyou are.
(03:10):
They're going to be horrified.
I mean, I'm past horrified.
I laugh at mine now because Ican probably trace back that one
time.
It takes a while.
It takes a while to reset thatalgorithm.
Go look at oceans and fishiesand nature pictures for about a
month just to get rid of thatsourdough baker with the pretty
(03:35):
toes.
It's going to take a while, allright.
Well, I was just thinking thisis the topic we're going to get
into.
I'm turned 50, I'm over 50.
You get people around you.
People die.
You realize your kids are justin this.
You're just in this moment withyour kids.
It's not gonna be forever, notto be depressing, but you just
(03:58):
kind of accept there are biggerthings and sadder things in life
than some things that otherpeople do.
So you just kind of like rollwith things.
I've definitely kind of gotmore used to.
People that know me are goingto tell me I'm lying just
because you're in my bubble andI tell you things one to one
when I'm out in the world, I doallow certain things to happen.
(04:20):
I might laugh through it.
I may think that's a ridiculousthing, but I got to think that
there's bigger things in thisworld that I need to deal with
than what someone's opinion was.
What someone said I don't know,just laugh at some people, just
be happy that we have theability to see different things.
(04:40):
Okay, and I guess that's whatthis this is angle is going
today is about acceptingdifferent things and having fun
with it.
All right, they're the peoplethat bring their own bags to the
grocery store.
If you're listening today andyou bring your own bag to the
grocery store, you are gross.
You're gross.
Maybe this is part of yourcommunity that you live in,
(05:04):
maybe that's a I don't knowCalifornia maybe does something
like that.
Colorado, certain areas.
Maybe they charge you a littlebit for a bag.
You could charge me a dollarfor every bag plastic bag that I
use in a grocery store.
You could charge me $5.
I'm not bringing my own bag tothe store, all right, so you
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think you're saving the worldwith your little E coli-filled,
disgusting bag for your organickale that, if we go down that
road, kale's disgusting anddoesn't do any good for you.
Don't quote me on that, I'm nota doctor.
But ew, if you're going tobring your own bag, just know
that I'm looking at you, I'mlaughing at you, I'm disgusted
(05:45):
by you.
You're probably changing myalgorithm as we speak, but I
don't hate you.
I love that you're able tobring your bag.
I love that I get to watch youbring your bag and maybe you
read something that told youyou're saving the world one
plastic bag at a time and youfeel good about that.
I'm happy that that brings youjoy.
(06:06):
I'm happy that I'm allowed tolaugh at you being brought joy
by that.
But that's where we're at.
So this week, last week,whatever week it was, I think
it's calmed down just a littlebit.
But oh, the mahas, the mahatriggers came out, came out.
Everyone was freaked out byclean water and healthy children
(06:29):
or whatever.
That was about, right.
I mean, oh, I don't know, wejust everyone was lost their
minds and I kind of look at itlike the bag at the grocery
store, like somebody wants tobring their bag.
You might think it's gross, Ithink it's gross, but I don't
know.
You want to do it.
Knock yourselves out, right?
I mean this isn't evenpolitical, right?
(06:50):
I know that people would sayit's not political.
They are political.
I really mean, this is notpolitical.
There's no one to me that'slike this guy that stepped in
here.
He's not.
It's not a political thing forme.
I hate politics.
I really do.
Do I have beliefs?
They're all over the place,okay, um, every side is bonkers,
(07:11):
right, we don't need if anybodywho accepts a hundred percent
of one side or the other is outof their minds and we don't need
that kind of negativity, right?
That's not what we're here for.
But you know, you have to becurious as an adult.
You owe it to the world, youowe it to your family, you owe
it to yourself to be curious,and that means not sitting and
(07:37):
staring at a TV all day,especially one channel, unless
it's like an old TV.
Yesterday I started watchingQuincy.
Now I'm really dating myself.
Quincy gosh, that was like 1976to, I want to say, 1983.
Man, I was young, but Iremember Quincy.
Jack Klugman, look it up.
If you're staring at that allday, have at it.
(07:59):
But you know what I mean.
If it's just a one-sided TVshow that you're watching all
day, you owe it to yourself toget up, turn the channel, turn
it off, go, walk down the streetand talk to 10 different people
today.
Right, get out there.
And I'm curious.
And one of my things I'm curiousabout health and wellness,
right, this is kind of where Ifelt myself drawn for a long
(08:22):
time, even before I got quoteunquote into it.
I've always been drawn to it.
Right, I will take, and I'veprobably taken a hundred
different supplements on and off.
I see a commercial for it, Itake it.
If I hear a guy in a podcasttalk about it, I take it.
If someone passes by me andsays, have you tried this?
If I hear a guy in a podcasttalk about it, I take it.
If someone passes by me andsays, have you tried this?
I'll take it.
It's trial and error and to methat's curiosity.
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I'm not going to look at someoneand say, oh, you're completely
wrong, without actually havingsome sort of idea that in my
opinion, they're wrong and I'lltry it out.
I mean, you know who you areout there.
All right, ready, I'm going toget a bunch of you, those people
taking apple cider vinegar oh,my goodness, Are you still
(09:04):
taking apple cider vinegar?
If you are, what do they say?
If you are, you need some facecream because you gotta be old.
You are out of your mind.
If you think this apple cidervinegar is doing anything for
you except giving you bad breathand a nasty burp, okay, but
have I tried that?
Sure, I did.
Years ago.
I tried that Nonsense Did itSaid, well, that's lame.
(09:25):
You might think it works and inyour brain I did this and I
felt like a million bucks.
Go for it If that effect makesyou happy in life.
But look how I got to try it.
You got to try it and I got tolearn that it's complete
nonsense for me and you think itworks for you.
Have at it, I don't care.
You're bringing your bags tothe grocery store and I'm not,
(09:51):
but we both end up withgroceries.
Right, it's fine.
Except mine doesn't haveorganic kale and I do eat.
Well, I eat clean, I try to eatorganic.
I filter my water.
I avoid toxins, right?
Do you guys have that Yuka app,y-u-k-a?
(10:14):
Go out there and get it.
It'll send you down rabbitholes, but you can scan food
products and you can scancosmetics and there's just
little toxins in everythingadditives, what have you and
it'll tell you what's in it.
I mean, some of it might tellyou that it's completely
hazardous.
Sucralose will always send itin the red and spinning.
Some of you are okay withsucralose.
Uh, is this good for your gut?
Probably definitely not, butyou get to make the choice of
(10:35):
like ah, I'm going to go withsucralose.
I don't think it's that bad,but it's a great thing to use
when you're just trying to doyour best, and that's really all
we can do is try to do our best.
We are in this world of constantinformation.
Do you realize how lucky we are?
Our parents didn't have this.
No one before us had this.
(10:55):
Our kids will never know whatit's like not to think of
something and have the answer,and answer immediately.
How amazing is that?
So I think that, as an adult,our kids are doing it.
Our kids are constantly lookingup stuff and learning stuff,
and who knows what they're goingto learn?
They can be swayed one way orthe other just based on their
(11:18):
exploration.
Right, we can absorb this stuff24-7.
Now, some people you know whoyou are you can just sit there
and absorb hundreds of pieces ofinformation, and some people
and you know who they are canreally only handle one or two at
a time.
Welcome to the world.
We're all a little bitdifferent as far as our uptake
on information right.
Some are smarter than others.
Some of can really only handleone or two at a time.
Welcome to the world.
We're all a little bitdifferent as far as our uptake
(11:39):
on information right.
Some are smarter than others.
Some of them are stronger thanothers.
Some of them are faster thanothers.
We all have our talents.
Oh, but goodness, enter RFK.
Oh, there it is.
Rfk comes in and everyone losestheir minds.
What are we doing Now?
(12:00):
He has opinions on things andsome people got really mad about
his opinions.
Listen, there are some thingsthat he's.
I'll give you one.
There was one thing aboutsomething like brain.
The brainwaves of your cellphone are going to kill you,
wi-fi or whatever.
Now, some people out there mightthink that, and I might think
maybe, but based on what I'veseen, everyone's not running
(12:25):
around with a tumor in theirhead and I think it's probably
not.
Look, I can take a piece ofinformation and I can let it go.
Everybody out there, try to letit go.
If you have taken hundreds ofpieces of information and you
made an opinion, just run withthat opinion and everyone else
(12:47):
let it go.
In a hated sort of way.
Let it go and say at least Ihave the opportunity to be
different than that person.
You're not forced to do that,right?
But you also have to acceptthat every piece of information
has an angle and some people sayno, some people say they're
non-biased.
But you owe it to I start offin the beginning.
(13:08):
You owe it to yourself to becurious, okay.
And if you're curious enough,you're going to take a piece of
information and you might wantto do research on that and find
out where the information camefrom, and you can accept where
that information came from andstill hold that opinion.
That's okay.
I can think that the opinion isnot valid based on where it
(13:30):
came from, because humans that'swhat's crazy that we can do
that Everyone is paid.
Everything you see, everythingyou do, everyone is paid and
that's okay.
I mean it's not okay, but it'sokay because it's just
ubiquitous, right.
Everything is.
And more money, more influence,right?
(13:51):
Let's?
Just my bone that I love topick at are kids.
I don't care what adults do, Ireally don't, I don't.
We went through a pandemic.
If an adult wanted to do thisor do that, let them do it.
I always defended a kid and youdon't have to have kids to
(14:11):
defend kids.
But you've got to think of kids.
They are the most naive emptyslates in the world.
And if you think about it, ifyou're as old as I am, how we
just went in the woods and wewent on the streets and we
walked miles without our parentseven knowing we did so many
things that we explored, we hadno clue and we just absorbed the
(14:32):
world naturally.
And unfortunately, now withelectronics and social media,
our kids are getting force-fedmore things sooner than they
really should before theirbrains adapt.
So I feel like I can project mychildhood on my kid.
(14:53):
Now listen, kids are property.
I get it.
My kids can do my kids.
But if I feel like a kid iswronged, I'm going to do my best
not to step on someone else'stoes, not to step on a parent's
toes, not to call out a parentand be mean to a parent, but
just advocate for kids.
Kids today are a mess.
(15:13):
They're a mess.
If you go into a school and I'mgoing to go with public school
my kids go to public school,right, not going to the private
school.
But so I have to deal with thepublic school.
They're a mess.
Kids are inactive okay, schoolis made to make them inactive
(15:35):
public school.
Okay, they're overweight andeveryone hates to admit that,
but they are.
They're inactive and they'reoverweight and, as you know, as
an adult you want to lose weight, right.
You kind of have to check whatgoes in your mouth first before
you start hitting the gym.
Gym's great, activity's great,but your mouth is what's going
(15:56):
to change your life.
Kids are eating garbage and ifyou want to go down a rabbit
hole of information again,believe it, don't believe it.
But if you go, read ingredientsfrom today versus when, let's
go 25 years ago, the food isdifferent.
Of course it's different.
We've grown, we've gottenhigher technologies, we've
(16:20):
figured out shortcuts.
Work smarter, not harder.
You really can't blame the foodcompanies so much.
I mean you want to, but what dothey owe you?
They owe you a food.
They don't owe you anything,that's, if it's not killing you
and you're eating it, who dothey care you?
You owe the world to be curious.
(16:40):
So be curious.
Okay, the food we ate back thenis not the same as we are now.
If you're denying that, thenyou are still staring at the one
channel on the TV.
Okay, if someone wants to giveinformation about that and you
don't read it, well, it's on you.
(17:03):
You're lacking the curiosity,you don't have to buy into it.
But wouldn't you want to hearsomething possible that,
especially if it's your kids,something possible that,
especially if it's your kids?
If someone came to me and saidthis is something that's
(17:23):
destroying kids, I am readingand listening to every word of
it.
I might close it and say you'reout of your mind.
But you bet your butt I'mlistening to it.
Okay, you go to school.
There's no nuts.
Thank goodness there's no nuts.
We know about the nut kids.
Nothing against the nut kids.
I feel terrible for them.
Can you imagine not being toenjoy a Reese's peanut butter
cup?
And if you say Reese's, justturn this off and unfollow me
(17:43):
because it's not Reese's.
That makes my ears bleed.
It's Reese's.
Okay, but we're safe.
No nuts.
There's signs on the door nonuts in this classroom.
Please don't bring nuts in.
But you know what's in a school,a public school?
Doritos, okay, pop tarts, I amnot kidding you.
(18:04):
Cheetos, yeah, that's right.
No nuts, that kid's safe.
But go into the snack room.
Go into the lunchroom and seewhat kids are eating.
Okay, into the snack room.
Go into the lunchroom and seewhat kids are eating.
Okay, they're eating Doritosand Pop-Tarts at four o'clock
every day the public school thatmy kid goes to.
They open a snack box.
They open a snack box and theysay eat this.
(18:29):
You've been trapped in yourprison all day and had 20
minutes of running around wherethey were told to not talk and
to focus, and they hand themDoritos at four o'clock Okay.
Then they immediately say sitdown, we need quiet for a couple
(18:49):
minutes.
So you took a kid out of prisonI mean school all day.
You fed them Doritos and thentold them to sit down and then
gets reprimanded for talking andacting out.
These kids want to play, okay,and you just fed them the
chemicals and the type of foodsthat make kids hyperactive.
(19:10):
Right, gives them that ADD.
Oh, but there's no nuts.
Thank goodness.
If you could protect the nut kid, why can't we protect every kid
?
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
But let's get triggered by Maha.
Let's get triggered by listen.
If it was just called a healthinitiative, then maybe less
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people would be triggered.
I get it.
It's very polarizing the wayit's been labeled.
I'm polarized by it.
I get it.
But we've got to just let thetitle pass and understand that
it's undeniable what we'relooking at with our own eyes.
We are messing with kids beyondbelief.
(19:57):
As an adult, you can take thesame steps, but if you don't,
that's on you.
Guess what?
You don't live as long to seeyour kid grow up.
You're 50 years old Congrats.
You might have 20, 25 yearsleft.
Maybe you'll see your grandkidsfor five minutes.
That's on you.
That's fine, but we cannot takeour kids down that path.
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During this whole news cycle andeveryone being triggered by our
friend, someone stood up onstage behind a microphone and
declared that the NationalSchool Lunch Program is based on
science.
With a straight face, toldAmerica and anyone else who's
(20:42):
listening that the NationalSchool Lunch Program that's
public school kids, nationalSchool Lunch Program is based on
science.
How did we get this far?
How did we get this far?
We've all heard about the foodpyramid and how backwards it is.
Grains are on the base of it.
(21:07):
You know that's not trueanymore.
We all have learned If this isyour first day learning that
welcome Grains as a primary foodsource is completely bogus.
You need protein.
Protein is the number onemacronutrient in your entire
life.
For everything that you do,protein is 150%, the number one
thing that you need to get.
I don't know where you want toget that.
Some people are against meat.
Some people want the meatalternatives.
(21:28):
That's another rabbit hole youcan go be curious about that.
If you're eating the meatalternatives, you probably bring
your bags to the grocery storeand that's gross.
They're both gross.
Let me just read a little bitfor you about the National
School Lunch Program.
This is a little blurb.
(21:51):
It's available on the internets.
There are requirements of howmuch servings per week, how many
servings per week you'resupposed to have, and a minimum
per day that you're supposed tohave.
Okay, so, for instance, fivecups of milk a week.
Like five cups of milk, right.
(22:11):
Five days, five cups of milk,so minimum one cup a day.
Eight ounces of milk.
I'm all right with milk.
Milk's great.
Have at it.
It's low fat milk, which Ithink is nonsense.
You should be drinking full fatmilk, because we've all learned
that fat is not a problemaround here.
Now let's go to the meats.
(22:32):
Now we learn that the pyramid'snonsense and we know that
protein's the most important.
I would say that a kid, that's Kthrough five and TBH a K
through forever.
I was growing through college.
You need protein.
They're growing, so you havethese growing plants, trees,
(22:53):
whatever you want to call thesechildren.
Okay, they need protein.
Your public school, k throughfive has to have eight to 10
servings per week of protein orprotein alternative.
Okay, with a minimum of oneserving.
(23:14):
Okay, one serving, let's justgo with one serving.
Your kid goes to school andthey have their one serving.
So maybe this day is I don'tknow it's the pizza day.
Everyone has that pizza day.
Minimum credible serving is .25ounces .25 ounces, 0.25 ounces.
(23:41):
So go out there.
No nuts, don't give those nuts,but let's go with the Doritos
and 0.25 ounces of meat ormeat alternative.
(24:01):
Oh, good God, if it's meatalternative, what is happening?
You've got to do your research,figure out how to feed your
kids.
We do our best 80-20, right?
I hate it and sometimes I can'twin the fight, but there are
battles through the entire day.
If your kid's at school, youown breakfast, you own dinner,
maybe you even own their snacks,okay, you've got to find a way
(24:24):
to negate that.
Okay.
But when someone comes in hereand tells you that they want to
reform the school lunch programand you say, oh, it's based on
science, you need to do theresearch.
Okay,do it.
I'm going to leave you withthis.
I have a chart that a friendsent me and I'm just going to
(24:45):
read off a few things.
I know we don't like readingoff things it kind of takes us
away from my wonderfulpersonality.
But it's been spreading on theand I think what it was.
This chart was meant to be anegative towards that healthy
movement.
Okay, there's been a lot oftalk about dyes and chemicals in
(25:09):
food and by telling America weneed to take that on, I think
this chart was put out againstit and I look at it as a
positive reinforcement of thewhole healthy movement.
It's a pie chart and it sayschemicals in food and it's in
quotes because we're not allowedto say real chemicals because
(25:32):
we'd be admitting fault, right.
So we put chemicals in quotesand it's a little sliver of a
pie little sliver, I mean, it'sprobably one, I don't know one
60th of a pie.
And inside the pie there arelifestyle factors.
No kidding, okay, we all knowthe lifestyle factors.
(25:55):
If your lifestyle is terrible,the chemicals are just adding to
it.
But if you are trying to live abetter life, those chemicals
are going to be very importantto
you so.
Lack of exercise not planningright.
Plan your every day.
My kid walks out of here.
I go here's a snackhigh-protein snack.
(26:15):
Plan right.
Plan your Every day.
My kid walks out of here.
I go here's a snackhigh-protein snack.
Plan right.
Poor sleep your kids go toschool too early.
School that begins before 8o'clock is absolutely absurd for
a growing child.
Coaches out there, you listento me oh, your little 5 am, 5.30
practices.
You think you're tough.
You're doing kids a disserviceand you're hurting their brains
(26:39):
and you're hurting theirschoolwork.
You're hurting a lot of things.
Let your kids sleep right.
You have your parentsoverworking.
There's also socioeconomicfactors here.
We all understand that.
We're notdenying that.
Stress your kid can have stress.
You could put stress on yourkid.
Your job stress can be passeddown right.
(27:02):
And choosing processed,convenient foods that lack
nutrition, obviously.
So you want to choose processed, convenient foods that lack
nutrition.
Of course those are bad andthose are the ones with the
chemicals.
So anyway, there are lots oflifestyle factors that come into
play.
Chemicals are a small part ofthat.
But my final words are asadults, even as kids if you're a
(27:28):
teen kid, if you're a young kid, stay off the internet.
Don't do anything stupid.
Don't have opinions on anything.
Trust your parents hopefully,that are being curious.
Go out there, hear both sidesof it.
Hear all sides of it.
Try something.
Give it a week.
If it doesn't look like it'sgoing to kill you, give it a
week or two.
Give it a month.
See what happens.
But for the love of everything,please be curious out there.
(27:51):
Stop being triggered by someonewho wants to be healthy,
because you should be healthy.
Healthy.
America is a good America andwe'll talk to you next time.
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