Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 05/01/2012 06:30PM
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This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about multivitamins. Remember those Flintstone vitamins you used to take as a child, or that you give to your child? Erica is here to tell you that there is no proof that these vitamins improve your health in any way! Vitamin supplements are ultimate foodiness; taking the nutrients from food and marketing them as something you need separately from food! Tune in to hear about vitamin overdoses, the origin of vitamin supplements after World War II, and how vitamins are branded like candy to today's youth. This program has been brought to you by Edwards.
"There is no actual proof that taking vitamins does any good at all, and there's a growing body of evidence that they may actually do some harm since you're taking synthetic versions of the actual nutrients out of their natural context."
"We don't have thousands of years of culture to base our food lives on."
-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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What About Betty? (18:01)
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fracking, tuna, social issues, injustice, grassroots, Flintstones, vitamins, Betty, cartoons, Rosie O'Donnell, democracy, foodiness, supplements, smoking, broccoli, cocktails, food, pills, Madonna, medicine, vitamin industry, food quality, industrial revolution, processed food, enriched food, birth defects, vitamin d, grain fed, synthetic vitamins, World War II, marketing, vitamin B12, I Love Lucy, candy, nutrition, children's vitamins, Chocks, minerals, artificial,Vitamin Overdose and Food IQ (14:03)
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First Aired - 05/08/2012 06:30PM
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Is knowledge actually power like they used to say in Schoolhouse Rock? This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides is taking on the the burden that comes with food knowledge and education. How can you order food at a restaurant when you know that every item on the menu has been tainted by foodiness? Erica explains that this condition, called orthorexia nervosa, is actually one of the best eating disorders to have! And ultimately, wouldn't you rather know what you're putting into your body? You know what they say, "Ignorance is bliss...until you get diabetes." This episode has been brought to you by Whole Foods.
"Is knowledge about the food you're being fed necessarily, actually empowering? I actually think too much knowledge is paralyzing. Knowing too much is making my head hurt and spin and makes me freeze up in a vortex of indecision!" -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
"Is knowledge about the food you're being fed necessarily, actually empowering? I actually think too much knowledge is paralyzing. Knowing too much is making my head hurt and spin and makes me freeze up in a vortex of indecision!" -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Knowledge is Power? (13:08)
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Schoolhouse Rock, grammar, science, government, knowledge is power, food, education, Pringles, Gatorade, food writer, nutritionist, real food, hanger steak, salmon, earth to table, farmed fish, indecisiveness, wine, food knowledge, grains, sustainable, dairy, calcium, greens, tofu, soy, raw milk, organic, vegans, diets, venison, deer, mercury, quinoa, rice, sugar, Greek yogurt, goat, bees, honey, carbon footprint, Twitter, Omega 3, water, zero calories, morbid obesity, starvation, diagnosis, Facebook, video game addiction, orthorexia nervosa, almonds, fermented food, potato people,Brainwashed and Paralyzed (17:40)
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First Aired - 06/05/2012 06:30PM
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The end is near on this episode of Let's Get Real. Erica Wides is talking about the apocalypse, and how our entire food system is reliant on the grid. When a blight destroys all of our crops because of a lack of genetic diversity, how are we going to eat fruit snacks or yogurt in a tube? Solar flares, crop failure, and irradiated food are all very possible, if not probable, causes for the end of society as we know it. What to do next? Erica gives some helpful tips on how to survive an apocalypse (hint: eat your next door neighbor). This program has been brought to you by Whole Foods.
"The point is that even my culinary students who sign up and pay a lot of money to got to school to have me teach them how to be chefs are utterly clueless as to where their food comes from. It's like going to medical school and being shocked that medicine actually has something to do with human bodies." -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
"The point is that even my culinary students who sign up and pay a lot of money to got to school to have me teach them how to be chefs are utterly clueless as to where their food comes from. It's like going to medical school and being shocked that medicine actually has something to do with human bodies." -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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Survival Skills: Check (20:08)
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verbal malapropisms, dyslexic, artistic, fiber arts, yarn, quilting, the grid, bee keeping, chef, clean an animal, Portland, the Internet, apocalypse, food systems, soda ban, Pringles, Armageddon, Tina Fey, foodiness, whole chicken, chef on TV, fruit, Prozac, Adderall, solar flares, plant disease, crop failure, genetic diversity, fallout shelter, nuclear radiation, Irradiated food, terrorism, overpopulation, Faye Dunaway, the rapture, Wisconsin recall election, collective bargaining, NYC Blackout 2003, Sarah Palin, epidemics,Learning from the Movies (14:39)
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liberal guilt, Soylent Green, Bladerunner, Wall-E, Logan's Run, seaweed, Bloomberg, Wall-E book report, dog food, Little House on the Prairie, cannibalism, Fresh Direct, brownstones, BPA, zombies, honey, pretzels, the liberal elite, sugar, fertility, usefulness, economy, survival skills, Chris Nutter, radio, credit card debt, student loan, lawlessness, eat your neighbor,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
