Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Hello, and welcome to rework rewriting our kids education podcast. Are you ready for another season of rethinking re-examining and re-educating our children and ourselves. My name is Michelle person, and I am so happy to have you along on this journey. The road is long, but we will get there. Welcome to our second season. We work on this podcast to make sure we are rewriting our kids' education so they can become the best versions of themselves. It's important that we remember that our journey often begins before they ever actually set foot in a classroom. On today's episode, we will be talking about getting woke about our health. Our guest today, mark is Bailey is a certified nutrition consultant and personal trainer who wants to help as many people as possible take control of their health and wellness. And my experience as an educator, it is so difficult to teach a kid who is hungry.
Speaker 0 00:01:02 FYI. It is also difficult to teach a kid who was hopped up on flaming hot Cheetos and sunflower seeds. But I digress. We tell our kids it's important to eat healthy, but are we really teaching them? What healthy really is? We say they need three servings of dairy a day. Do they need calcium and vitamins? A and D yes, but do they need dairy? Not so much. We tell them to eat three servings of protein each day. And that meat is the best source of protein. Do we need protein? Yes. Does it have to come from me? Not at all. It is time. We reeducated ourselves and our children about what we put into our bodies, because as the saying goes, you are what you eat. And I don't know about you, but I have no desire to be a flaming hot Cheetos. And oh yeah. Are you,
Speaker 0 00:02:23 An apple a day. Keeps the doctor away. How many times have you heard that saying it's popular because it's true. People who eat lots of fruits and vegetables go to the doctor, less, they have lower cholesterol and healthier hearts. So if we know this, why do we continue to eat crap? And why do we insist on feeding our kids crap? As a teacher, there is nothing more frustrating than watching your students enter the classroom at eight 30 in the morning with a bag of chips and a big goal, that child is going to be hungry in an hour, irritated in two hours and sent to the principal's office by our three for being unfocused and disruptive. Nearly 20% of six-year-olds in America are obese and black and brown children make up 50% of that. 20% cases of childhood diabetes is skyrocketing. We know these stats, but for whatever reason, we are slow to change our eating habits. How can we encourage our children to make better food choices? Our guest today, mark is Bailey has been on a journey of health for over 15 years. He has made it his life's mission to share what he has learned on his journey. So others can live their best and healthiest lives. Mark is Bailey. Thank you so much for joining us today. I cannot wait to hear all the great information you have to share.
Speaker 2 00:03:53 No
Speaker 0 00:03:53 Problem. Now you are possibly one of the healthiest people I know, and, but I also know that that was not always the case. Now. I didn't know you then. Um, but I've seen pictures. Um, and so I want to start off before we get into what we should be doing and what we should be putting into our children. Um, I want the viewers to understand, um, how you came to be upon this journey. So can you tell us, you know, about your health journey and what made you so vigilant about what you began to put into your body?
Speaker 2 00:04:29 For sure. Uh, you're absolutely right. Um, I certainly have not always been on the path that I'm on now. What really started my path, my journey, and what really kicked me off. Take me off too, is when my oldest son was about three or four years old, I looked at a picture which is going through a photo album. And I saw pictures of me holding him when he was maybe two or something like that, or sometime recently. And I've seen the pictures before, but in that moment, I was just flat out disgusted with myself. I mean, I had looked at the picture, I was angry at myself. I was angry at everybody else around me. Like now I know you guys see what this picture looks like. Is this what you all see when you look at me? And no one has said anything, like, I can't see it obviously, but you all see it. And I was just so disgusted. Um, and that's what really kicked it off. That was the one event that just flipped the switch and said,
Speaker 0 00:05:39 Yeah, something has to change. I've got to do something different. I can understand. Now, as you began this journey, I think you've learned a lot, you know, a lot about, you know, how, what we put in our bodies affects how we feel, what we look like. Um, you know, how it directly impacts our health. I personally, 100% as being in the classrooms, running schools for years completely and totally 100% wholeheartedly believe that health and, um, and, and academics are intertwined so much so that every year during state testing, um, when I was the principal of the school, I would go to school. Now, granted, I know you're probably going to tell me that Michelle show you shouldn't be getting pancakes, but every year to make sure they would come in and eat some breakfast before they would sit down for the state test, that determined whether or not my school got an a, um, whether or not I got, you know, whether or not I had to keep my job for another year.
Speaker 0 00:06:38 Um, I made sure that I went out and every kid knew that the day that they sat down to take the test and this person was making them pancakes. And he started that tradition at my school. And we did it. I was at that particular building for about five years. And we did that for five years. Every they were, they, they, kids were, they couldn't stand testing, but they loved the pancakes. And so, but, but the reason behind me doing that was purely selfish. My kids would walk to school every morning and as they would come in the door, they would, there was a corner store on both corners. Here's a corner store and they would go in in the morning, they would take their two, $3 worth of money. And they would come in with flaming hot Cheetos and quarter waters and, uh, you know, big gulps. And I'm just like, you cannot eat that. And I expect for you to be able to perform at any type of academic level. And this test was just too important for me to leave it to flaming hot Cheetos, to power them through this two hour, two and a half hour test. So I, 100% get it. Um, but I want to know, um, what can you share with our listeners about how important it is to monitor what we put in our bodies?
Speaker 2 00:07:56 Well, you said a lot of things that I 100% agree with, and I'm going to make a few correlations here because one of the things that I have come to believe over my journey of just educating myself, that the first thing that I did was I had to unlearn first and then learn. So that's, that's the hardest part that a lot of people have is unlearning what they know currently before they start learning something different. We monitor what our kids take into their mind because we as adults know, you know, as a man thinketh. So is he, you know, you're not going to be able to take in negative information and then manifest positive thoughts. I'm not gonna say Michelle, you know what I mean? I'll tell you what, just keep listening to people, tell you that you won't make it. It's okay. You still will keep hanging around with the people that will tell you, um, that you're going to fail.
Speaker 2 00:08:53 What you're doing is not working and it's okay. It'll still work out, keep surrounding yourself with those people. But why is it that we allow ourselves? And this is why it's so important for us to realize what we put into our bodies, because you cannot take in harmful foods and liquids and expect to manifest wellness. So you can't take in something bad and expect to get a good result. It's actually one of the few things that we have almost complete control over so I can walk down the street. I mean, I can't, I can't choose what to see and what not to see whatever my eyes are open and see whatever my ears hear. They hear. Only thing I can control is what I put in my mouth. I mean, that's the one thing that I actually can control. What goes in everything else, you know, our mind, we can kind of adjust so that it does different things. So even if we hear something negative, we can do things to look. She didn't know what she was talking about. Don't believe it don't believe it. Yes. I mean, we can, we can self-talk ourselves out of the things that we hear so we can do something to counteract it. But here's the thing. Our bodies are a natural system. So I can't eat a Snickers. That was a carrot. That was a carrot.
Speaker 2 00:10:24 You don't self-talk, you know, once it goes down your down your throat, it is going to do what your body is made for it to do. You can't talk your way into a food behaving differently in your body. That's not something that you can we'll pray, talk, hope, wish away. So that is why it is so important. You've got complete control over what goes in, but you have no control over what happens when it goes down. That is why it is so important.
Speaker 0 00:10:59 I, 100%, I love the analogy like you can. We can, we teach kids self-talk strategies and the coping mechanisms and how to deal with the things in their life that they cannot control. If you're in a bad environment or you, no one's ever told you positive things about yourself, we can definitely teach you how to navigate those situations so that you can produce the type of emotions, the type of feelings, a type of mindset that, that you need in order to be successful and to do that with food. And so why, and it's simple, like you would think that that actually is a simple concept for people to understand, but not only does it seem like it's not an easy concept for people understand it is so hard for them to change their habits. Why do you think it is so hard for them to change their habits? They know that that Snickers bar is not turning into a chair and they know they need to eat more carrots. Why is it so hard for them to actually pick up the carrot?
Speaker 2 00:12:03 Let me give you a couple of, uh, a couple of reasons why it's hard. Uh, but there's actually some physiological things that happen. And it's pretty sad that you fall into this downward spiral where there's a question about, do people eat a lot because they're fat or are they fat because they eat a lot and face value. It's like, well, yeah, but when you understand the hormonal changes and the chemical things that go on in your body, you don't even realize that the heavier you become the more, um, toxic your body becomes, the more out of balance your hormones become your body. Doesn't even know that you're full. So you're, you're not even eating because you're just like, Hey, I like food or whatever you are in this downward spiral, downward spiral where hormonally, you just continue to feed and feed and feed because your body is getting sicker and sicker and sicker.
Speaker 2 00:13:10 So it's not about what you eat is what you keep. So, so that's the first thing that I'll say is there's a bunch of physiological things that happen that make it hard for people to change. Um, there's addictive qualities to sugar, there's addictive qualities to dairy. And there's very good reasons why that is. Um, that's why it's hard for people to get off cheese because there's a chemical in there that makes it addictive for you to eat. So there's some addiction built in that we can talk about if you'd like, but here's one, here's a few of the high level reasons why it's hard for people to change because unfortunately it's not a behavior with immediate consequences. I touch a stove. I'm not doing that again. I Rob a bank, I'm on the run. I get caught. I go to jail. There are penalties for negative things that you do in your life.
Speaker 2 00:14:02 Um, I come to school, I cheat on a test. I get a bad grade or so there's immediate consequences. The problem I'll call it a problem because this is one of the things I think makes it hard to change is if I drink a soda today, I don't wake up tomorrow with type two diabetes. I, you know, I don't wake up tomorrow with a fatty liver tomorrow. So I think, well, I was pretty good. It tasted good. I woke up, I feel pretty good. But what we don't realize is that accumulated over time, bad habits. And that's where you start to hear people saying, well, first of all, I've been drinking. I've been drinking this. I've been eating this for 20 years and I'm still feeling, and then when something happens, we blame, well, it runs in my family, you know, I'm, I'm 40 years old now. So we blame age. We blame ancestors. We don't blame our accumulated bad habits. So that's the first thing is there's no immediate. We're not able to compress time and see, this is going to later equal that. Now that's where,
Speaker 0 00:15:17 So I agree with that, but it's so funny though, because with my students, you can actually see it right away. Like when I say you can see it right away. The number of obese children in my school is astronomical. Number of students in my building two years ago, before pandemic that have been diagnosed that had been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. I went from in my career, never having a student in my building who was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes to having three
Speaker 2 00:15:55 Diabetes didn't use to exist. It used to just be adult onset.
Speaker 0 00:15:58 Yeah. And so, and so for me, I almost feel like that one, you can, I get to the grownups, but for the, you can begin to see the effects on the kids almost immediately. It's a much smaller window. If you blame the right thing,
Speaker 2 00:16:15 You got to blame the right thing. Um, so the other thing is we, as people, we want someone to prove to us why we should do something new, but we don't have that same burden of proof expectation for the habits we currently have. So let me give you an example. You are having a conversation and you're like, all right. So tell me a little bit more about this or that and why you need this, or why should I eat that? And I say, Hey, you know, you should eat X instead of Y. And, and this is a real conversation. A lot of people I've had with, well, prove to me, guarantee me evil. I need a guarantee that X is beneficial for me. And then my question is, well, let me ask you a question before I answer you, because you know, I'm not selling anything.
Speaker 2 00:17:06 I'm not here to convince you to do anything. What I'd like you to do is tell me what proof or guarantees do you have that what you're currently eating is beneficial? Well, I don't have any, so you've eaten what you're doing, what you currently did or doing with no evidence, no proof, no one had to convince you, you know, you didn't leave your house at 18 and say, well, wait a minute. Now, mom and dad, before I leave home, I need you to give me, um, an, an essay on everything that you fed me through throughout my life. And I need you to prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is indeed healthy and indeed beneficial for my body. If you can't do that, then I'm going to forget everything that you've taught me about nutrition.
Speaker 2 00:17:56 No, that's not what we did. We just keep doing what we've been doing. We want someone to prove to us the new way is better, but we haven't even proven to ourselves that we're currently doing is working. Um, so the last thing is marketing, excuse me. So we've adopted product slogans. As you know, nutritional law does a body good part of a complete breakfast heart-healthy food, low fat, low carb, high, this high protein, lower it. We just keep hearing that stuff. And we go in and we buy based on what the package says. Well, I heard so-and-so is better for you. Well, you know, protein is so that's. The other thing is we are sold very well. There's a lot of money being spent to make sure that we are given a message. That's not beneficial for us, but beneficial to the food companies. And it's unfortunate that the people that sell us food don't care about our health.
Speaker 2 00:19:06 And it's also unfortunate that the people who tend to our health don't really pay much attention to our food. Those things make it hard to change. In addition to the fact that I said at the beginning, as we eat bad, which is why it's very important to address this as children to address this in our children is because what you see are those that are obese as a child are already hormonally imbalanced, they're already insulin resistant, so they may eat some food. And you think that they're full. What we think full is, is a full belly, but the sales of their body have received no nutrition, no energy because they're insulin resistant. So they're not even able to absorb that. It just gets stored off as fat and unused. So they're already addicted and unable to physiologically and chemically control what they eat, how they eat, because we've now set them on the wrong path. Um, and you know, we did, of course allow ourselves to be told by the food industry, Hey, it's your fault. Eat less, work out more,
Speaker 0 00:20:19 Continue to eat pounds of beef at every meal, because that's a great source of protein. Um, but just pick out more after you do it.
Speaker 2 00:20:27 Yeah. So you, you must, you must be lazy. That must be your thing.
Speaker 0 00:20:31 Yeah. It's amazing how much Jedi mind trick goes on. First of all, and even our bodies, the fact that if you start down this path, your body will Jedi mind trick, will Jedi mind trick you into thinking that still hungry when you're not, uh, you know, there's that, um, and then the Jedi mind trick of, um, the, the marketing marketing is real like that milk does a body good slogan. That was huge. You know, that, that was huge. The idea that dairy has to be included, you know, three servings of dairy. It's not, I was, um, uh, talking, I was so frustrated with my daughter's doctor at the last visit. And, um, she was saying, you know, how much milk do you drink? And how many I'm like, you know, we don't eat, you know, we don't drink a lot of milk. Oh, she needs her calcium yellowy, green vegetables at every meal.
Speaker 0 00:21:21 Yeah. But that, that milk, she should really be, no, we don't need to get our, like, you know, like we, I mean, we keep milk in the house. Yes. I'm not as good as you beat me, do keep milk in the house, uh, for support cereal only for cereal. Um, but, and we don't really even eat that a bet either that often, but, you know, she was really on the, how many, how many glasses of milk do give her every day. I'm like, I don't give her glasses of milk. I make her eat spinach. And you know, so that's just, it's just frustrating that even if you go to the doctor, you'll have the doctor, the authority still not giving you the right information so that you can make better choices so that we can make sure our children are healthy. That to me was just infuriating.
Speaker 2 00:22:04 Yeah. And unfortunately, um, first of all, I mean, I respect, appreciate, and love healthcare professionals. Uh, but they are, their education is set up to manage symptoms, not to manage health. So they don't even get the nutritional training that they should get. I think there's a few hours in the curriculum of a medical doctor's program, uh, that they have to go through a few hours. So anything else that they know they've done themselves or supplementally, but yeah. I mean, you think of things like, Nope, for calcium. And again, this is, this is how my education of myself. This is how I went about it. Like I was saying earlier, I just look at everything that I take in. And I say, I need to prove that this is what I need. Milk was one of those first things that I gave up for a few reasons.
Speaker 2 00:23:09 One, why am I drinking milk? Well, I'm drinking it for calcium, I think. And strong bones. I think, I think that's why I'm drinking it. Okay. Well, let's examine it. What makes Nope have calcium? Well, it comes through the cow. What does the cow get? The calcium, calcium is a mineral. It comes from the earth. Cal eats plants gives off excess calcium comes through in milk. Well, let's just see if I just go eat the plant and bypass that. And I don't want to use this. Uh, I hate to this crude analogy, but I always say, well, that would be the equivalent of saying, Hey, I want someone to go eat three oranges, go urinate in a cup so I can get me some vitamin CS. Like, why don't I just eat the oranges? And if you look at statistics, it'll show you, United States has a highest level of osteoporosis in the world.
Speaker 2 00:24:06 And in fact, it's gone up in relation to our dairy consumption. Um, if you'll look, um, the age at which young females have started, their cycle have come down in relationship to the age or to the dairy consumption because milk and, you know, I just started to dig in, let me just look into milk. Milk is given off by cows. Uh, cows need to be impregnated. They need to give birth. And then they lactate just like humans would. But I imagine that dairy farmers don't give maternity leave. So no you've given birth. We're going to impregnate you again. We're going to put you back up on the milkers so you can give milk while you're pregnant. What does a man will do when she's pregnant, create more estrogen? So what are we drinking? We're drinking estrogen liquid. So now we're now becoming estrogen dominant females again are starting their cycle earlier. Males are claiming that low testosterone as a result of getting older, versus maybe I'm just estrogen dominant. I'm taking in too much estrogen. Um, so I'll, I'll skip the estrogen. I don't need the calcium through the milk. I can just go get it directly. Like you said, in a more bio available source, um, they'll add vitamin D to it to make it seem like this is what you need for vitamin D milk. Well, this is your only source of getting it. That's how they want you to think. Um, the USDA actually subsidizes the school.
Speaker 0 00:25:42 I was, I couldn't wait for you to pause because I know that was my point. My point was they, they, they, they, they give us the milk for free. The kids are supposed to just drink it. I mean like that, they don't give water. They don't send water that, you know, can't get water in school, but you can get chocolate milk. You can get white milk, you can get strawberry milk, you can get all different types of milk. Um, you know, because that's what they, that day they're teaching our kids. That that's how you that's healthy.
Speaker 2 00:26:12 That's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah. I guess once I put all that out, I haven't proven to myself that I should be drinking milk. I've actually proven to myself that everything that I think I'm getting I can get and should get somewhere else, minus the estrogen, minus the addictive properties. I'd like to be control of what I want when I want it versus being addicted to it. Um, and then that's that, and then you move on to the next, well, what's next on the list? What else do I eat? And let me go through that process with every single thing I eat.
Speaker 0 00:26:47 I mean, like, I think like that is now I encourage all of our listeners to go through that process. I think you broken it down and in a really great way for people to understand that what I hope you took away, listeners is everything you think you're supposed to eat. Everything you need to rethink it. You need to re-examine and rethink everything that you've been told that you should be eating, starting with milk, and then just go download the rest of everything else on your plate at the dinner table. Right. Um, but then if you don't have time for that right now in this moment, what are three things that you think that parents can do quickly? And, uh, and, and without a whole lot of needing, um, extra education, extra money in the budget, what are the three things that parents can do right now that will positively impact their child's health? When it comes to what they're putting in their bodies?
Speaker 2 00:27:44 The thing is lose the juice, lose the juice, fruit juice, fruit punch, soft drinks, energy drinks, all of it. Um, water, unsweet tea. That's all you need. Oh, well. What about things that are made with real fruit juice? What about orange juice? Aren't those good and loaded with vitamin C? Well, I believe that to be a great drink. So how are you going to convince me that that's something that I should eliminate in my child's diet? Well, first of all, when you take an orange and you extract the juice, you get the sugar, the vitamins in the water, you've taken away. Your body's ability to process that properly in nature. The poison is always packed with the antidote. If I eat the orange, if I eat the apple whole, it limits the amount of sugar that goes directly to the liver. So most of the sugar goes down into your gut, which feeds your gut bacteria, which is healthy, which is what creates, I think about 70% of your immune system is your gut.
Speaker 2 00:28:58 So we wonder why kids are sick. They have sick guts as well. So when I eat a whole piece of fruit, isn't there sugar in that. Yes, but I don't, my liver doesn't get all of it. Most of it goes down to the gut. So get rid of juices. We are drinking calories, we're drinking sugar and our livers. Can't take it. The only difference between a beer bottle of beer in a bottle of juice is the ethanol that makes you, that gives you the buzz. So lose the juice. That's number one. Um, the second thing parents can do is plan ahead and pack. So it's easier said than done, but our children are worth it. You know, I assume that wherever I go and I'm speaking for me, I'm speaking for the family, wherever I go. I assume our health is nowhere on my host's list of concerns.
Speaker 2 00:29:55 Pack ahead, eat a whole meal, a whole food meal before you leave non-processed foods eat before you get there, pack some snacks so that if you get there, they're like, oh, there is no fruit tray. There's no veggie tray. There's no, you know, everything is just that's okay. I brought my own. Um, so again, very inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as watching your child suffer from something that normally a 40 50 year old will suffer from. So the last thing that I would say, and this is actually, I would say the most important, uh, and this puts it square on the listeners. The parents is to create a do as I do environment, not a do, as I say, environment, um, lead by example, the best thing you can pass down to your child or good habits, you know, and we're thinking like, well, that didn't really make much sense when it comes to food.
Speaker 2 00:30:50 And that, I don't know that that works, but most of the time, you know, if someone, if we see a child who's mannerly, who's pleasant, who has a great attitude and a great spirit, you probably assume they have parents that are also pleasant. They treat other people, right? If you see a child in school who's coming in and he or she is making racist comments to someone, I think it stands to reason that they probably got that from their home. And they hear their parents make those type of comments. But when we talk about just basic habits, create the environment where you yourself take it seriously. First, you can't sit your child down to a plate of brussel sprouts and, and great foods. And you're like, well, listen, daddy's going to eat this because listen, I'm grown. Number five combo supersize. You know, you don't talk to adults. You don't worry about what I'm eating. You just eat yours. So you have to be a do, as I do lead by example, value health value, life take control yourself first, and others will follow.
Speaker 0 00:32:03 Those are all great tips. Um, and, and I do, as I say, and not as I do, I think a lot of us have to get out of, out of that mindset that we can just say, no, eat your broccoli, but they're watching you eat French fries. Um, so I think that that's, I love that you said that, do you have any resources that you can share where parents can go to learn more about, um, you know, the truth about what we're eating and tips, um, for, for helping their kids become healthier?
Speaker 2 00:32:30 The real food is the first thing as close to the farm as possible. Um, if you're going to fish, try to eat fish, that is, wild-caught not farm raised because you eat what your food eats. So if you eat a fish that was wild caught that grew up eating algae that grew up eating what fishy. Then you're going to get the benefit of what that fish gives you. If you eat a fish that was raised on a farm, growing up, eating corn and soy, you essentially are going to get a fish. That's not omega three omega, six balanced as you think they are. In fact, they're going to be out of whack with omega six, which creates a lot of inflammation because you're eating a corn fed soy fed fish. So you essentially are eating excess corn, excess soy. So you think why it was fish?
Speaker 2 00:33:24 It must be good. It said USDA grade a, it must be great. Um, uh, grass fed grass finished beef, um, you know, vegetables as they were grown. So if you're going to do like fresh, frozen, like some broccoli that was cut and then put directly organic broccoli and then frozen. Okay. Um, you don't have to do to the produce section every single day. Uh, but food, food, whole food, real food is the thing. The second thing is read labels. If you go to FDA's website, they will tell you the rules that they have set forth. Um, and they've made a lot of changes over the last 20 years. I'll say, um, a lot of changes came within the last five. Still not perfect, I'll admit, but they will tell you how to flip over the box and actually see what you're getting. So two things that I'll tell you in terms of resources, when you look through food labels and look at the FDA's website, serving size, we mistake serving size for portion, oh, a hundred, a hundred calories per serving. Well, um, this cereal is a hundred calories per serving. I had a bowl of cereal, 100 calories check, diet winning, but you don't realize a serving size is maybe a quarter cup. I mean, and if you eat cereal, like I used to eat cereal. You ain't eat no quarter cup.
Speaker 2 00:34:57 Yeah. So you might have 600 calories in one bowl, 50 grams of sugar in one bowl, 30 grams of sugar in one bowl. So pay attention to serving size. The other thing is, ingredients are listed in order of predominance. So if you look at things like, um, like the sports drinks, well, this is sports drinks. So this is good for replenishing electrolytes. You know, athletes drink it, I'm going to drink it. Well, first of all, there's a big difference between someone who just ran a marathon and chugs down a sports drink and what it's going to do for their body. And you saying proof thirsty, you know? Yeah. That was a long trip from the house to the car. I need a power eight. You know, the ingredients on those are water. Normally the second one is high fructose corn syrup. So water and sugar, the first two things that are in there.
Speaker 2 00:35:57 And then after that, uh, you know, you may have some calcium and some vitamins and some other things like that, but some food colorings, but it's sugar and it's water. So look at the ingredients and if you see something, whatever you see first is what's most in there. And then it'll list it all the way down to the bottom of whatever you see at the bottom is what's least in there. And the last thing I'll say on food labels, you will see sugar listed multiple times. So you can look at a special label and it'll say high fructose corn syrup, number two. And then number five will be sucrose. Number eight will be, um, you know, aspartame or so you'll see sugar listed four or five different ways. And you think, well, didn't have that much sugar, but they'll, they'll split them up. So they sugar appears lower on the list.
Speaker 2 00:36:53 Well, you told me, look at the things we'll list. First three things are good. Good, good. That means it must be good, but then you don't see, sugar is maybe eight of the last 10 things listed. So collectively pay actually make up the predominant ingredient. So FDA website will give you the rules on what labeling looks like. What does percentage daily value, um, what things are required to be listed? How does that work out when it talks about predominance, uh, serving size, um, and, and just, don't be afraid to go out. I know people have a little bit of an issue or where'd you get your information, Google. Um, but Google pulls up information like, um, national Institute of health, uh, peer reviewed research studies, um, randomized control, trial results, you know, Harvard, um, university of California, San Francisco. I mean, so you get some scholarly information on these things. So just look up enough information and just, what is this for? Why do I drink milk? Why should I eat this? Is this good or bad for me? Just look that stuff up one item at a time, but don't take the first word you, you hear as, as truth, try to find enough information that says, well, you know what? I think I've pretty much convinced myself that this does not make sense. Like, make it make sense to you before you continue to eat it. One item at a time.
Speaker 0 00:38:27 Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, parents, that was a lot of information. Um, we were going to have some links to all of the websites that mark is referenced on the website that you can listen to or look at after the show. Um, I hope what you took away from this as quick, giving your kids juice, because that was his number one tip. Thank you so much for your time, Marcus and I, it was great having you.
Speaker 2 00:38:53 My pleasure. Thank you so much. And God bless your listeners and good luck and hopefully you and your children look, feel and live much better. Just one step at a time.
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