Why Most of What We Eat Isn’t Real Food
00:00:00.000 | most of what we eat is not food and the definition of food is quite different than what we're eating.
00:00:06.320 | The food is basically any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that
00:00:10.800 | plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. Now if you go by that definition of food,
00:00:16.400 | what most of us are eating does not maintain life or growth. It actually harms us. When you look at
00:00:22.320 | fast food, when you look at most of the ingredients that are in food, they're not actually food. In
00:00:26.480 | fact, 60% of our calories are ultra-processed food, which is deconstructed science projects
00:00:32.000 | from corn, wheat, and soy that are industrially grown, that are deconstructed into their chemical
00:00:37.040 | elements, that are reassembled into all sizes, colors, and shapes of chemically extruded food-
00:00:41.360 | like substances that have nothing to do with nutrition. That is what Americans are eating
00:00:44.960 | and that, my friend, is why we are a sick nation. And so when I think of food and nutrition,
00:00:49.440 | food as medicine, food as information that can literally upgrade or downgrade your biological
00:00:55.680 | software with every single byte.