It's been a great season of harvesting the truth. My summation entails One sentence: Eat real food, mostly organic, that we cook at home. Send me a message at hello@foodstoic.com and leave a review on where you're listening!
Today I am honored to feature Marion Nestle on the show. Marion is one of the most highly regarded voices in food nutrition and marketing. She has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and MPH in Public Health Nutrition. Her experience in this space is unmatched. She has taught at the university level since the 1960's, recently retiring from teaching in 2017. However, "retiring" means she now has more time to write--over 15 books and a daily blog called Food Politics. Here's the highlights of our convers...
In today's episode I talk with Mary Ruddick. Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health" for her unique ability to expeditiously asses and remediate rare neuromuscular conditions that others have deemed impossible, Mary Ruddick is an ancestral nutritionist and experiential anthropologist who specializes in neuromuscular disorders, infertility, and disabling chronic disease. She can regularly be found endangering herself in the untouched corners of the world to learn from and distill the wisdom from t...
In this episode learn all about the toxic weedkiller Glyphosate with the person who literally wrote the book on it. Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist with MIT and has been involved with studying Glyphosate for many years. In fact, a long line of people commended her work, including Robert F. Kennedy who relied on her research to prosecute Monsanto Company, the maker of Glyphosate. Dr. Seneff's book is "Toxic Legacy, How the Weedkiller Glyphosate is Destroying Our Health and the...
School lunches are not immune from ultra-processed foods, chemical additives, pesticides and the general horrors of the Standard American Diet. But in this episode I share some refreshing news via Chef Rebecca Polson. Rebecca Polson CC, SNS, is a chef consultant and culinary trainer for K-12 schools. With her farm to chef inspired meals, she is reshaping school nutrition, one recipe at a time. Let's rid the schools of the unhealthy reheat and serve model so prevalent when big corporations are in...
Everywhere you look there's information. In fact, we are flooded with it. Opinions, facts, lies, untruths, truths, evidence, half-truths, misinformation, disinformation. . .what do we trust? Some people swear we need to go plant-based, others tell us to eat meat and honey. Another says no sugar, while yet another says sugar is fine. Alcohol or not? Red meat or no? Some days my head is going to explode from so many different opinions. I have decided to trust myself. So today I am sharing how I to...
Sometimes we need medications. Today I share a story about a family member who experienced sudden immobility and required medicine to regain it. However, the goal was to get off the medicine, especially one that carries so many risks and side effects. As a nation, however, we've become so comfortable with prescriptions and trust in the medications, that we often don't even bother to read the fine print of the side effects when we pick the medicines up from the pharmacy. Shouldn't there be a goal...
Would you drink a green goo-like substance consisting of 2 lbs of greens and fruits every day for six months---and only that!---if it healed you from an autoimmune disorder? Well friends, my guest today did exactly that. Meet Lisa Roers. Lisa is the host of a podcast, Sunshine Cafe. While we met through podcasting I was struck by her story and knew I needed to introduce her to you. Lisa woke up one day with a kink in her neck, and that pretty quickly turned into not being able to walk. While she...
It's in our food, our water, our air and our clothes. Glyphosate, the active chemical in the herbicide Round-Up, came on the market in the 1970's and has been increasingly changing our planet ever since. Is it as benign as Monsanto-Bayer claims? The EPA certainly appears to believe so. In this episode Michelle Adams shares what she has learned about the pesticide since beginning her intentional eating journey. In the last twenty years chronic disease has skyrocketed, and so has our exposure to c...
In today's episode I share a Glyphosate update via the recent legal cases with Plaintiff victories in November and December. Also, I share what I have learned about Monsanto's role in Agent Orange, along with the emotional story of Paul Reutershan. Paul was just 17 years old when he enlisted in the Army and became stationed over in Vietnam. As part of a helicopter team, he would watch the mist of Agent Orange roll down from the airplanes spreading it above. Agent Orange was an herbicide manufact...
In today's minisode I review one of Mel Weinstein's food rules (See S1E10), specifically his rule to not eat processed or industrialized food. To do so, I share something I learned in my training as a 20 year litigator (and licensed attorney for 31 years). Cliff note version: When analyzing information look for credibility. Opinions based on good foundation are credible. Opinions that are mere opinions without foundation are not. On this podcast I seek out credible guests who have real experienc...
What's really in the food we're eating? If you notice, there's no ingredient label on your Big Mac. So Mel Weinstein, an analytical chemist and food scientist, set out to discover those ingredients. His findings are in his book, Fast Food Ingredients Revealed. He also shares that information with us today in this interesting conversation. Mel was a college professor in chemistry with an interest in food science, then he started a 20 year career as an analytical chemist with a corn processing com...
We are learning that the focus of our health is our gut microbiome. It regulates our physical and mental health and yet, medical professionals we come in contact with in our daily lives aren't talking about it. In this episode I share a personal story about healing the microbiome and how it changed everything in my family's life when it happened. Our guts are resilient and can be healed. Moreover, we can take charge of our health in order to achieve that. Despite taking my son to 7 doctors over ...
Gut Microbiome. Is that really a thing? In this episode let's dive into it and learn exactly what it is. You'll learn that it IS a thing and in fact, it's the center of all things that happen to us because it affects both our physical and mental health. What you learn here is so important because we aren't learning these things from our doctors. Today I am talking to Robin Jonas, Integrative Health Coach at Live Life Balanced With Robin. Robin and I talk about how we are a society of disease tre...
The most important thing we can do for our health is to take control of our food and yet, it's one of the hardest things to do. Moreover, better food simply costs more, which leads to a lot of upset. But better always costs more, doesn't it? Take the Apple Phone vs a flip phone. You kinda get what you pay for, right? In this mini episode I summarize what we learned on Tuesday during our conversation with Jillae Langman-Dalmolin. I also give some background on those $4.99 Costco Rotisserie Chicke...
For some of us discovering more about what's in our food, the information can be confusing and disconcerting. For Jillae Langman-Dalmolin and her husband Wesley, the information changed their entire lives. The information spurred them into becoming modern day homesteaders, moving across the country and buying a farm in the process. They now own and run an organically practiced farm in Illinois where they grow produce, herbs, bees and chickens (with more animals on the way!), along with running a...
The World Health Organization has identified meat, both red meat and processed meat, as a cause of cancer. It lists Processed Meat as a Group 1 carcinogen and Red Meat as a Group 2A carcinogen. In this episode Michelle Adams shares her understanding of the science as to why these meats are linked to cancer. Further, if the meat we eat causes cancer, how can we continue to eat it safely and prevent disease? Michelle shares her tips, based on the science, as well as what she does in her own life. ...
What do you do when your husband receives a Stage IV cancer diagnosis? You assemble a health care team of modern medical doctors, along with non-traditional specialists. You also consciously change what you eat as you become more aware of what's in your food. This was the perspective of Brieonna Aljets when her husband was diagnosed with cancer during the pandemic. They immediately jumped into action. Today she is sharing their story from illness to wellness and how it changed their lives. In pa...
If Glyphosate is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe, where do we begin to eliminate it from our lives? In this episode Michelle Adams encourages everyone to take control of what they are eating and to begin their intentional eating journey. We may not be able to end the spraying of pesticides on our food just yet, but we can exercise our freedom of choice when it comes to the food we purchase and send a message with our dollars. In this episode Michelle shares ten tips...
Call it what you want: Intentional Eating, Mindful Eating or Conscious Consumption. It all comes down to what's in our food, where did it come from and how was it made? Most importantly, how does what we eat affect us physically and mentally? Moreover, what role does it all play in making the world safe and sustainable? In this episode Harvesting the Truth founder and host, Michelle Adams, shares five stories that led her on a journey of self discovery. That journey has become a mission. Conside...
My name is Michelle Adams and the most important thing to know about me is that I am a mother. I am a mom with kids that have health problems who walked into the grocery store and asked, "what food do I buy to feed my kids?" This came on the heels of "why are my kids sick?" As a lawyer who was a medical litigator for 20 years and a food entrepreneur who understands the role ingredients play in our food I set out on a journey to get information and solve problems. Our problem was our food and whe...
