There’s so much confusion surrounding what we should and shouldn't be eating. Then there are the ingredients used to make our food, chemicals sprayed on our produce, hormones, and antibiotics found in our meat… It can get quite overwhelming!
Vani Hari, world-renowned food activist and founder of Food Babe is on a mission to bring good, healthy food back to the table.
During this interview with Dr. Friedman, Vani discusses her New York Time’s best-selling book Food Babe Kitchen. She shares how cooking saved her life, the importance of what you're storing your food in, the things you should take out of your pantry right NOW, sugar and flour alternatives, and much, much more.
Building a Food Babe Kitchen
Featuring:
Vani Hari
Named as one of the “Most Influential People on the Internet” by Time Magazine, Vani Hari is the revolutionary food activist behind foodbabe.com, co-founder of organic food brand Truvani, New York Times best-selling author of The Food Babe Way, and Feeding You Lies. For most of her life, Vani ate whatever she wanted—candy, soda, fast food, processed food—until her typical American diet landed her where that diet typically does, in a hospital. Despite her successful career in corporate consulting, Hari decided that health had to become a priority. Her newfound goal drove her to investigate what is really in our food, how it is grown, and what chemicals are used in its production. The more she learned, the more she changed, and the better she felt.
Encouraged by her friends and family, Hari started a blog called foodbabe.com in 2011. It quickly became a massive vehicle for change. She has led campaigns against food giants like Kraft, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Subway, and General Mills that attracted more than 500,000 signatures and led to the removal of several controversial ingredients used by these companies. Through corporate activism, petitions, and social media campaigns, Hari and her Food Babe Army have become one of the most powerful populist forces in the health and food industries. Her drive to change the food system inspired the creation of her new company called Truvani, where she produces real food without added chemicals, products without toxins, and labels without lies. Hari has been profiled in the New York Times and The Atlantic, and has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and NPR. Vani lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband Finley and daughter Harley.
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