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The Bitter Truth About Food Podcast

Welcome to The Bitter Truth About Food, a top‑10% global podcast hosted by Brad Young—multi‑time bestselling author and relentless investigator of what’s really on our plates. This is where we expose the hidden realities behind everyday foods. From the addictive pull of sugar to the harmful, potentially cancer‑causing chemicals buried in processed products, we dig into the truths the food industry would rather keep quiet. Each episode breaks down how these ingredients impact your health, why they’re

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GMO Foods: What You Should Know

The Bitter Truth About Food Podcast ·

2026/06/25

Today on The Bitter Truth About Food, we are talking about something that has been at the center of one of the most heated food debates of the last three decades. We are talking about genetically modified organisms, or what most people simply call GMOs. And I want to be upfront with you right from the start: this episode is not going to tell you that GMOs are the devil, and it is not going to tell you that they are perfectly safe and you should never worry about them. What this episode is going to

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46:42

How Food Companies Engineer Cravings

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2026/06/20

Why does a bag of chips that you opened intending to have just a few end up being half or fully consumed? Why does the drive-through feel so much more compelling than the grocery store at the end of a long day? Why do the foods that nutritional science consistently identifies as the most damaging also happen to be the ones that most people find the most difficult to resist?The answer is not weakness of character. It is not a lack of self-discipline or a failure of willpower. Those explanations are

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38:17

The Rise of Ultra‑Processed Foods: How Modern Diets...

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2026/06/14

Ultra‑processed foods have quietly taken over the modern diet—faster than most people realize. In this episode of The Bitter Truth About Food, we uncover how these engineered, hyper‑palatable products became a global staple and why they’re now linked to rising rates of obesity, chronic disease, and metabolic dysfunction. We break down what “ultra‑processed” really means, how food companies design products to keep you hooked, and the hidden ingredients that make these foods so damaging. You’ll also

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Episode 79: Can We Trust Organic Labels?

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2026/06/02

To understand where we are today with organic food, you have to understand where the movement came from and what it was responding to. The organic farming movement in the United States did not emerge from marketing departments. It emerged from genuine and scientifically grounded concerns about the industrialization of agriculture that accelerated dramatically following World War Two. The development of synthetic pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers — many of them derived from technologies originally

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44:18

Episode 78: The Truth About Additives in Children's...

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2026/05/25

Let us start at the very beginning, because the word "chicken" in chicken nugget is doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting. Most parents assume that when they buy a bag of chicken nuggets, they are getting roughly the same thing they would get if they cooked a piece of chicken breast at home — just in a fun shape with a crispy coating. That assumption is not just wrong. It is dangerously wrong. The reality of what goes into a mass-produced children's chicken nugget is something that most food

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Episode 77: Intermittent Fasting Versus Traditional...

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2026/05/14

Intermittent fasting has become one of the most discussed dietary strategies of the last decade. Depending on which corner of the internet you inhabit, it is either a miraculous metabolic intervention that will transform your health, your longevity, and your body composition — or it is an overhyped trend with no sustainable advantages over simply eating less. The truth, as it usually does, sits somewhere more nuanced than either of those poles. And I think understanding exactly where it sits

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Episode 76: The True Environmental Cost of Global...

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2026/05/07

Let us start with a number that I want you to hold in your mind for the rest of this section. The global food system is responsible for somewhere between twenty-six and thirty-four percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. That is not a typo. More than a quarter of everything humanity does to warm this planet can be traced back to how we grow, process, transport, and dispose of food. And yet, when most people talk about climate change, they talk about cars and factories and

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Episode 75 The Controversy of Dairy Products in a...

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2026/04/20

Dairy is uniquely emotional in the world of nutrition. It is bound up in childhood, in comfort, in culture, in the image of strong bones and healthy kids and wholesome American farms. It is also a multi-billion dollar industry with one of the most successful marketing campaigns in the history of food — a campaign built on the phrase Got Milk, on the three-a-day dairy recommendation that appeared in federal dietary guidelines for decades, and on the simple, memorable, and only partially accurate

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00:44:34

Episode 74 Artificial Food Additives and Their Hidden...

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2026/04/15

Today we are diving into two of the most important and most misunderstood topics in modern food science. First, we are going to talk about artificial food additives — those mysterious ingredients buried in the fine print of every processed food label — and what the research is actually telling us about their long-term impact on human health. Then in our second episode, we are going to take a hard, honest look at dairy products, the controversy surrounding them, and whether the calcium narrative we

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00:38:58

Episode 73 The Role of Social Media in Shaping...

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2026/04/10

Welcome back. If Episode 72 was about the institutional forces that have shaped what we eat over the past century — government, industry, lobbying, research funding — then Episode 73 is about the new frontier. The digital frontier. Because the landscape of nutritional information has been transformed in the past fifteen years by a force that no government agency and no food company fully anticipated: social media.The Information Diet: Curating What You Consume Online Just as you make choices

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Episode 72 The Role of Social Media in Shaping...

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2026/04/05

Billions of people now get their health and nutrition information from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and a sprawling ecosystem of podcasts, newsletters, and websites that operate entirely outside the traditional gatekeeping structures of peer-reviewed science and regulated health communication. This has created both enormous opportunity and enormous danger. The opportunity is real: independent voices have been able to challenge industry-sponsored consensus and share genuinely useful

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00:36:43

Episode 71 The Politics Behind Dietary Guidelines

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2026/04/01

Let me set the scene for you. It is 1977. A United States Senate committee, led by Senator George McGovern, publishes the first official Dietary Goals for the United States. The report, put together after months of testimony from scientists, nutritionists, and medical professionals, recommends that Americans reduce their consumption of red meat and full-fat dairy products. The science at the time, while imperfect, was pointing in a clear direction. Reduce saturated fat. Reduce cholesterol. Eat less

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00:27:47

Episode 70: The Use of Antibiotics in Livestock and...

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2026/03/25

We are going to talk about antibiotics. Specifically, we are going to talk about the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, the scale of that use, the mechanisms by which it creates problems that extend far beyond the farm, and the ways in which those problems have begun to manifest in the health of human populations around the world. This is a story that involves biology, economics, agriculture, regulatory policy, and the basic principles of evolutionary science. It is a story with no clean

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Episode 69: Are Detox Diets Scientifically Backed or...

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2026/03/20

You have seen them everywhere. Juice cleanses. Seven-day detox programs. Herbal teatoxes. Activated charcoal smoothies. Celery juice protocols. They come packaged in beautiful bottles with words like "purify," "reset," "cleanse," and "revitalize" printed across the label in a clean, modern font. They promise to flush toxins from your system, reboot your metabolism, clear your skin, sharpen your mind, and leave you feeling like an entirely new human being in just five to thirty days.And they are

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00:37:52

Episode 68: The Long-Term Impacts of Pesticides on...

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2026/03/15

There is a substance on approximately seventy percent of the non-organic produce in American grocery stores right now. You cannot see it. You cannot smell it. You cannot taste it. And if you ask most people whether they are concerned about it, they will either say they have heard it is fine or admit that they do not know much about it at all. This is Episode 68 of The Bitter Truth About Food, and we are going to spend the next hour talking about pesticides — what they are, what the evidence actually

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Episode 67: The Connection Between Big Food...

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2026/03/10

In this episode, we are going to walk through five interconnected stories — about marketing, processing, labeling, lobbying, and psychology — that together form a portrait of an industry that has prioritized profit over public health for decades. None of what follows requires you to hate any individual company or executive. What it requires is that you look at the evidence plainly and ask yourself why no one told you this sooner.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California

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00:42:32

Episode 66: The Organic Question: Science Beyond...

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2026/03/05

The organic food movement represents both a response to concerns about industrial agriculture and a multibillion dollar industry with its own marketing imperatives. Understanding whether organic foods justify their premium prices requires moving beyond marketing claims to examine scientific evidence about nutritional content, environmental impacts, pesticide exposure, and food quality. This examination must acknowledge both the legitimate benefits of organic practices and the complexities that

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00:38:08

Episode 65: The Corporate Food Machine and Your...

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2026/02/25

The relationship between major food corporations and rising obesity rates represents one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. Over the past five decades, obesity rates in the United States have tripled, with more than forty-two percent of adults now classified as obese according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This dramatic increase coincides directly with the expansion and consolidation of the processed food industry. Understanding this connection requires

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00:48:19

Episode 64: The Impact of Ultra-Processed Foods on...

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2026/02/20

Parents working multiple jobs lack time and energy for shopping and cooking. Convenience foods become necessary rather than chosen, perpetuating unhealthy patterns.Discussions about children's diets often ignore economic reality. Advice to buy organic produce, shop at farmers markets, and cook meals from scratch assumes resources that many families simply don't have. Food access and economic constraints create barriers that good intentions can't overcome. Addressing children's nutrition requires

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00:39:46

Episode 63: The Impact of Ultra-Processed Foods on...

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2026/02/15

We've examined plant-based meats versus traditional farming and unpacked the deceptive world of food labeling. Now we turn to perhaps the most urgent food crisis facing our society: the systematic poisoning of an entire generation of children through ultra-processed foods. This isn't hyperbole. When you look at the data on childhood obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease, the trajectory is genuinely frightening. Children today are experiencing health conditions that were once rare or unknown in

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