Look at the state of health for Americans and you hear these statistics, just how you know, 74% of adults are abuse or overweight and early onside cancer diagnosis. What do you think is causing that? Yeah, I think it's a really complex problem. A lot of it is related to food and what we eat. I think we eat too much food.
I think we eat the wrong types of foods. The average American eats a lot of what is now called ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods.
So that is a little of Jillian Michaels' special she has now on Fox Nation, America's favorite streaming app. It's called Toxis, America's Food Crisis. Jillian, as much as you know, when you're talking to these experts, did you learn something from this? In all fairness, I pretty much know. You know it already.
But it's not my job. It's my job to facilitate the ability of these experts to communicate their knowledge to everyday people who are there to learn. And I think what you're going to find is it's not as obvious as it seems. In other words, the system has been rigged against you. What ultra-processed foods actually are, what they actually do, how they were created, why they were created, and then subsequently, what you can do about it.
So, why were they created? One of the reasons is to keep food fresh, to go with the size of our country. No. No. Why do you think it was?
Cheaper? Nope. These foods are engineered by teams of multidisciplinary scientists to get you to literally not be capable of eating just one. When they say, bet you can't eat just one, that is not a slogan. That's a business.
Model. It's all about profit. And in the 1980s, Big Tobacco bought Big Food because the Surgeon General was going after cigarettes and it was working and sales were declining. And they took that playbook over to Big Food and they made all of that processed food ultra-processed, highly palatable, highly addictive. They engineered your environment, surrounding you with all this stuff.
So you really can't ever just use willpower because the temptation never ceases. They commandeered the narrative. They told you, like, oh, you, this ultra-processed grain is heart healthy. Oh, no, no, no, don't worry about being 100 pounds overweight. You could be healthy at any size.
It's highly manipulative, very, very deep. And ultimately, this documentary exposes that.
So, you know, what's so interesting now is in one way, this whole. Kind of a a something different. Did you ever? I don't know if you ever could have foreseen something like Ozempic coming out. While you're doing all your fitness things, trying to get people in shape, in comes the shot.
Where people are losing weight, but they're also losing muscle. And now it's affecting everything. We're eating less, we're drinking less, even restaurants are paying the price. The liquor industry is paying the price. That's really interesting for a host of reasons.
So, first of all, if you think about the ways in which big food engineers ultra-processed food to be highly addictive, it's I mean, literally, they created something called the bliss point, which is this perfect ratio of fat, sugar, and salt that. Triggers the dopamine pleasure center of your brain. That's just one thing of many, right? But they literally call it the bliss point. The food is blissful, so you can't stop eating.
What do these drugs do? They facilitate your ability to stop eating in two ways. Number one, they delay gastric emptying, which means you stay fuller for longer. The food sits in your gut for a longer period of time, which is arguably not healthy, but that's a separate conversation. And the second part is that they act on that pleasure center of your brain.
So basically, the food cannot trigger the bliss point. And you're Not hungry.
So it facilitates your ability to eat less, but it comes at a price, literally and figuratively. It's not cut and dry, I'm afraid. Understood.
So, the whole, let's talk about the food pyramid. What changed yesterday?
Okay, well, this really goes back to our conversation of the ways in which they rigged the system.
So, people think of this graphic, and they may remember it from elementary school, and it seems simple. To many, it seems obvious. To some, it seems unattainable. But here's the reality: this is not about informing the average American on what they should be eating at all. This is about the funnel of hundreds of billions of dollars.
So, back in the 70s, when they intended to create this food pyramid, they did it because it was meant to instruct what was fed to our kids in public schools, what was fed to our military, what we give to food assistants, SNAP, women, and children, or WIC as people know it.
So, Corn Refiners Association, Wheat Growers of America, Soybean Growers of America got in there, lobbied the USDA. You've got that revolving door that Kennedy talks about constantly, where you go from working at big food to the public health agencies. And that's how you got a food pyramid that recommended refined grains and processed seed oils and all this garbage. And $600 billion over the last three decades of our tax dollars has gone to the big food companies and big ag.
So, now what this does, it takes that $600 billion and it funnels it towards the healthier foods on the pyramid. Pyramid so that better for you foods are more accessible to our most vulnerable population. And now people always say, well, the better foods, the whole foods, where a lot of the better stuff is, is more expensive. They don't even pop up with those high-end supermarkets in working class areas. But I think the RFK is attacking that too, right?
Well, the food pyramid is what feeds our kids in public schools.
So it has to be provided. Same to the military. It has to be all the stuff on the food pyramid has to be provided. For SNAP, you got to provide it. That's what the food pyramid says.
Same thing women and children.
Now, ultimately, people do need to take agency. Of course, you have to make that choice. You have to engage. You have to be responsible. But it's pretty darn hard to take agency when the system is rigged against you.
74% of Americans are not obese or overweight because they're weak, lazy, or stupid. And it isn't genetics. In the 70s, before all of this happened, only 5% of our adult population was obese or overweight. Or overweight. We didn't have a quantum leap in genetics over the last 50 years.
So it's about unrigging the system and educating people so they can take informed, powerful actions that will create change. All right.
So 50% of Americans have pre-diabetes or diabetes. 33% of teens suffer from diabetes, pre-diabetes. 20% of children and adolescents suffer from obesity, which is crazy. And 18.5% of young adults have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And you would think, well, these kids are just sitting down on their phones and they're overeating.
What you're saying is maybe they're not. It's just what they're eating. They are overeating.
Okay, so think of it as follows. They're overeating. And this food is designed to make them overeat. In addition, the food is calorie dense. Calories are units of energy, right?
So, what is fat? It's stored energy. It's energy you consumed that you didn't utilize. And the body said, Gosh, I have this energy reserve. What do I do with this?
Let's shove it in the fat cells.
So they're consuming too many calories, which is ultra-processed foods are calorie-dense. They lack nutrients. They are filled with anti-nutrients, fake fats, fake flavors, preservatives, so on and so forth.
So kids are not eating not just. Not getting nutrients. They're getting a host of chemicals that can mess up their endocrine system and their metabolism over years. They're getting calorie-dense garbage that begets their desire to eat more of it.
So it's all bad across the board.
So, this one thing: RFK, start eating more meat.
So, we were told avoid red meat. How do you feel about that? But he's right. He's right.
Now, listen. I don't want to overwhelm people. In other words, you're going to feel like, I can't win. And the point here is that, yes, you should be eating grass-fed beef from regenerative soil, which means, you know, they're putting nutrients back in the soil. It's not overfarmed.
Because if you think about, okay, well, where are cows getting their nutrients? They're getting it from the grass and the soil. If it's depleted, they lack nutrients. If they're conventionally raised, they've got hormones, antibiotics, a host of other stuff, genetically engineered crops they're being fed.
So, look, at the end of the day, going organic, grass-fed, regenerative is going to be the best option. If you can't afford that and you need like a conventionally raised couch, a regular steak at a restaurant, it's still a heck of a lot better than French fries and pizza and soda. And you can get leaner cuts of that meat because a lot of the stuff that's bad sits in the fat.
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So, Brooke Rollins, the Ag Secretary, this is what's new. The Ag Secretary, working with the HHS, is kind of new. They just kept separate on separate lanes, separate lobbyists. Here's what she said yesterday: Cut 53. Recent data show that fruits, vegetables, dairy, and proteins, including eggs, pork, and ground beef, are becoming even more affordable every day for our American people.
American households enjoy the most affordable and abundant food in the world, and today's release only reinforces that reality. A healthy meal is within reach for all American families. These new dietary guidelines are a framework which is meant to be customized to meet the needs, the preferences, and the financial status of all American families. Exactly.
So, I was able to talk with farmers, went to North Dakota for. An event and they go, Hey, do you want to talk to some of the farm community? And they said, Yeah. And I talked to some of them. I did not know this.
We have like a national shortage of cattle. Yeah. And I would have between the grazing and whatever, and because of the de-emphasis on it, and because there's a theory out there. That the cattle and the methane gas was destroying the ozone layer. That was behind all this.
That's what comes with this impossible burgers and everything. The rhetoric, the propaganda. You ask, how do I feel about people eating red meat? In my industry, they demonized red meat. Absolutely.
It's not profitable. They're like, what about the Cattle Farmers Association of America? A journalist asked me that this morning when she was interviewing me about the food pyramid. And I was like, do you realize? Like, they have no money?
Don't you think if they did, they would have commandeered the food pyramid in the first place? The reason the friggin thing was 100 pages long is because it was filled with pseudoscience to demonize protein, saturated fat. And the reality of saturated fat, and I've spoken to many MDs and PhDs on the matter. Bottom line is, it will affect some people's cholesterol, not most, irregardless of that fact, is limited. With regard to the new food pyramid.
So if you don't overconsume, you're perfectly safe either way. You don't even need to engage in that debate. It only recommends 200 calories worth of saturated fat to begin with. Right. Here's RFK yesterday.
He says eat real food. Cut fifty two. Protein and healthy fats are essential. and were wrongly discouraged in prior dietary guidelines. We are ending the war on saturated fats.
Diets rich in vegetables and fruits reduce disease risk more effectively than many drugs. All grains outperform refined carbohydrates. Added sugars, especially sugar-sweetened beverages, drive metabolic disease. And today, our government declares war on added sugar. Highly processed foods loaded with additives, added sugar, and excess salt damage health and should be avoided.
As Secretary of Health and Human Services, My message is clear, eat real food. Eat real food. Can TG, or can I elaborate a bit on what he just said?
So, another reason that saturated fat has been demonized throughout the years is because they wanted to sell you seed oils. And of course, you've had PhDs in nutrition science come out and say, We don't really know that these things are bad for you. If in the documentary, we show you how these are processed, any chemicals like hexane, lye, bleaching clays, ultra-pasteurization, which creates trans fats. It's not necessarily the seed oil, it's the ways in which they process it that are irrefutably horrible for your health. But think about seed oils.
Again, Corn Refining Association of America, Soybean Growers Association of America. It's all about money. It was never about your health.
So beef tallow? Beef tallow. Listen, ideal world. olive oil, right? Like that's a like so if you have a continuum of fats, it's going to be a polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, and then we can get into saturated, but the absolute worst thing are going to be trans fats, fractionated oils.
That you're getting from these processed cedars. Beef tallow is fine. Is olive oil better? Yeah, kind of irrefutably. Would it taste better or is better?
Better for your health. Oh, I didn't know that.
Okay. Yeah. But but but but Beef tallow. in a controlled calorie diet is perfectly Fine. Right.
He's big into that, RFK. He is big into that. I personally would suggest leaning heavy into the olive oil conversation. We have a robust amount of data to suggest it's like bad for no one, great for everyone. And it does recommend that.
They talk about nuts and seeds and omega-3 fish oils and avocado oil and olive oil, and that's wonderful. The goal is not to demonize beef tallow because they did it in order to sell you processed seed oils. And before we go, I want to play one more clip from your special. The special is called Toxic America's Food Crisis. Here, Jillian talks to Callie Means, Cut56.
The administration released a Maha report that cited four pillars of chronic disease. Can you tell me what they are? The pillars of chronic disease that we're talking about are environmental exposures, food. Sedentary lifestyle and chronic stress last sleep. I mean, these are super positive, basic things, and we're being called misinformation radicals for talking about why 95% of our medical budget goes to pills and medical procedures to manage sickness, and why we're not thinking with that $5 trillion we spend per year on medicine, can we actually lower chronic stress?
Can we actually encourage more movement? Can we encourage more whole food? And can we really understand the cumulative exposure? risks from all of these chemicals in our environment.
So you like the four pillars? I mean, the four pillars are obvious. I would have you note that he mentioned sleep in there, bro. Yeah, Brian. Guys, Brian conceded to me behind the scenes that he only sleeps like four and a half hours.
So I was yelling at him just a little bit. Right. Yeah, well, okay. But it's obvious stuff. It's chemicals in your environment.
Duh. It's sitting too much. Right. No kidding. It's the consumption of ultra-processed garbage that actually is in food.
Of course, not getting enough sleep and being overly stressed. Like, it's everything you already know. What you don't know is the ways in which, in which the system is rigged against you. That's what we're exposing in this documentary. And subsequently, what you can do on your own accord of your own agency to take control.
And also check out Jillian's podcast. She's a host of Keeping It Real podcast. We can find that everywhere, right? Yeah, everywhere. And of course, you got the special now, America's Food Crisis.
Jillian, I'm glad it brought you through. I'm glad we were on your hit list because I know you come through. You come through in surges, so we appreciate it. And they're finally listening to Jillian Michaels. Yeah, thank you so much.
and the federal government, which means all of you gotta pay attention.
