Pubic Service Announcement: Don't ever. Ever. Forget to read the ingredients.

Looks like making your shake at home is the clear winner.

I used to love SunChips and believed they were a “healthier” chip. They even say “Heart Healthy” on the package! But the ingredients tell the truth…

Evidence why it’s so much better to make a smoothie at home. At home you wouldn’t use juice “concentrates”, white sugar, natural flavors, and a slew of synthetic nutrients made in a lab.

To witness just how processed frozen yogurt can be, I challenge you to go to your favorite frozen yogurt place and ask them to show you how it looks before they put it in the machines.

It’s not just the INGREDIENTS added to fast food that you should watch out for…Phthalates are common plasticizers. These chemicals are showing up in our bodies, where they can harm our health over time: reduced hormones, decreased fertility, insulin resistance, and more.

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DQ’s ice cream is so processed that it isn’t technically “ice cream”. They artificially thicken it up with additives like carrageenan, polysorbate 80 and mono and diglycerides - which are riddled with health risks ranging from heart disease to cancer.

I recently saw a dietitian recommend Taco Bell’s Cantina Chicken Bowl as a healthy option. You can’t add some veggies to an ultraprocessed product and call it good for you. This is the type of rhetoric that misled me when I was younger.

Alarming new test results on breakfast cereals found glyphosate residue (the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer linked to cancer) in 90% of the American breakfast cereals they tested - EVEN ORGANIC.

I hope this is motivation to ditch the processed snacks like Goldfish and Veggie Straws and choose real food as often as possible!

Most brands that sell children’s food sneak in additives to replace MSG—such as “Yeast Extract”—which contains free glutamic acid–the main component of MSG. This engineers their food to taste irresistible, increasing addictive eating habits.

I once met a man who worked for Pepsi for over 20 years, where he drank Mountain Dew every day. He was going blind in one eye, had diabetes and heart disease. It was heartbreaking. When I see how badly people are negatively affected by our food system, the more passion grows within me to change it.

Yellow 6 is linked to hyperactivity in children, which requires a warning label in Europe. Even though they know the risks, it’s financially beneficial for them to keep the cheaper dyes in the American version. Doesn’t this sound unethical to you?

A concerned mother wrote to me that her child's school brings in a Kona Ice truck every day after school as a “nutritious” treat. It is appalling that schools are serving this to children.

Check your products! When you ingest gums, they slow down your digestion and form a gel-like substance in your stomach, giving you that “bubble gut” feeling. Even worse, gums change the bacteria in your microbiome, which can lead to disease over time.

“Ooo…Matcha! That’s healthy right?” Meanwhile you’re sabotaging yourself with boatloads of refined sugar and processed chemicals linked to cancer.

Isn’t it totally ridiculous that you’ll find an ingredient linked to diabetes and obesity in “Keto” and “100-calorie” products?

When I stopped focusing on the calories, carbs, and fat grams and looked into the ingredients I was eating instead, my health completely turned around.

Honestly, I hate to pick on Shake Shack. They are one of the very few restaurants who serve antibiotic-free meats…but you need to know the truth about their food!