Synthetic Food Colorings and other Harmful Additives to Avoid [Episode #972]

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Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. Today within the Food Cornerstone, we’re gonna be covering synthetic food colorings and other harmful additives and ingredients to avoid. Some of you may have heard that recently read three was banned in the United States, which we’ll get into in our show today, but it begs the question, why is this even in our food supply? And what else is in there that’s not being addressed or that isn’t banned yet. So we want to talk about that as well as ways in which we can advocate for ourselves and our families, how we can really be careful about what we’re putting in our bodies, which really does have such a profound effect on everything from our perspective to our heart coherence to our microbiome. So many things are affected by the energies, the food that we take into our bodies so lets get started with talking about…..

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00:00 Introduction to the Food Cornerstone
05:33 Understanding Food Additives and Their Effects
11:55 Alternatives to Artificial Dyes and Additives
18:12 Practical Tips for Healthier Eating

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

A 2023 study by Sacred Heart University published in the Journal of Digital Commons examined the health risks and economic impact of artificial food dyes, focusing on their widespread use, regulatory inconsistencies, and consumer influence. The study highlights how low cost artificial food dyes have become deeply embedded in the food industry despite research that has linked synthetic dyes to serious health concerns, including ADHD in children, carcinogenic risks, and neurotoxicity. It found that 73% of children with ADHD showed fewer symptoms when artificial food dyes were removed from their diet

A 2023 study published in the journal of Foods examined natural food colorants as alternatives to synthetic dyes, highlighting their sources, extraction methods, stability challenges, and regulatory considerations. It highlighted the great developments that have been made to solve stability problems with natural food colorants and how they could be incorporated into different food products, such as yogurt, bakery products, gummy candies, ice cream or pasta. The study also highlighted that encapsulated chlorophyll extracts demonstrated improved stability in chocolate products over a 28-day period.

In 2017, a study published in Food Additives & Contaminants: examined the differences in regulatory frameworks governing food color additives in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). The study analyzed how each region evaluates, approves, and restricts food dyes based on safety assessments, purity specifications, and acceptable levels of contaminants. While both the EU and the US follow strict approval processes, the study found key differences in which additives are permitted, the levels considered to be safe, and the agencies responsible for oversight.

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Nature (2014) found that artificial sweeteners like aspartame can alter gut microbiota, potentially leading to glucose intolerance and metabolic disorders.

A 2017 study in Frontiers in Physiology showed that sucralose negatively affects gut bacteria and may increase inflammation. Additionally studies highlighted in 2023 by the non profit U.S. Right to Know highlighted that sucralose consumption is linked to leukemia, weight gain, obesity, diabetes, liver inflammation, metabolic dysfunction and other illnesses.

In 2015 The World Health Organization (WHO) classified processed meats containing nitrates as Group 1 carcinogens due to their strong link to colorectal cancer.

A 2014 Study in the Encyclopedia of Toxicology found that BHA as ‘reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.’ This has been based on studies in experimental animals demonstrating that dietary exposure to BHA caused benign and malignant tumors of the forestomach (papilloma and squamous-cell carcinoma) in animals.

A 2019 study in the Global Journal of Nutrition and Science demonstrated that monosodium glutamate is hazardous to human health as it is linked to Chinese Restaurant Syndrome (CRS). Regular intake of MSG for a long period of time can lead to conditions such as hepatotoxicity, renal damage, Fibroid and Obesity.

A 2015 Study published in the Journal of Nature found that common food emulsifiers, particularly polysorbate 80 and carboxymethylcellulose, can significantly disrupt the gut microbiota, leading to increased inflammation and potentially raising the risk of metabolic diseases by altering the composition of gut bacteria and impacting the intestinal barrier function.

TRANSCRIPT

Kimberly Snyder (00:00.834)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a lovely week so far and I’m so excited to be here with you today talking about our food cornerstone. We like to rotate around the cornerstones to really emphasize that it is our holistic lifestyle that really gives us the best results with energy and happiness and vitality and just all around health and fulfillment in our lives.

So today we’re gonna be talking about food and we also talk about food, body, emotional wellbeing and spiritual growth. Today within the Food Cornerstone, we’re gonna be covering synthetic food colorings and other harmful additives and ingredients to avoid. Some of you may have heard that recently read three was banned in the United States, which we’ll get into in our show today, but it begs the question, why is this even in our food supply? And what else is in there that’s not?

being addressed or that isn’t banned yet. So we want to talk about that as well as ways in which we can advocate for ourselves and our families, how we can really be careful about what we’re putting in our bodies, which really does have such a profound effect on everything from our perspective to our heart coherence to our microbiome. So many things are affected by the energies, the food that we take into our bodies.

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Kimberly Snyder (02:21.41)
All right, let’s get into our show today. And this is one of the topics that’s very important for all of us to stay informed about because let’s face it, not everybody has our best interests in mind. The big food companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the government, there’s a lot at play when it comes to the very multi-billion dollar food industry. And there’s a lot of darkness and there’s a lot of things happening that

really make us, when we start to look underneath and look deeper and deeper into the information, we can start to cringe. We can even get a little bit scared. But what we can do is just be informed and make the most informed choices that we can. That way, we’re aware of everything. And whilst we may not be perfect and we may get some of these gradients in some time, what we want to aim for is at least 80 % of the time,

when we’re stocking our home kitchens, when we are shopping at the grocery store, when we’re filling our carts, when we’re placing those food orders, which is something I take advantage of myself to save time, that we are making the choices that are the most abundantly healthy and not pseudo healthy and not really harmful, fake foods. And again, these discussions are really important to work in as well.

So our question today comes from Jill who lives in Indiana. Jill, thank you for writing in, sending you much love there to the Midwest. Hello Kimberly, love the podcast. I had a question about food colorings. I saw that a red food coloring was banned and I am shocked by how many products food colorings are in and the harmful effects. I would love to get your thoughts on it and what ingredients we should be looking out for to avoid. Thank you. Well.

Jill, thank you again so much for bringing this topic to mind and to our conversation because this is back to the practical, the everyday, checking ingredient lists, understanding what’s really in our food supply. Now, some of the things we cannot control, there’s microplastics floating around in the ocean, for example, and there may be chemicals that are leaching into the fields and the soil.

Kimberly Snyder (04:45.89)
But this topic is very much something that is able for us to control. It is something that’s a choice. So yeah, let’s just dive right in without further ado. So Red 3 was banned in the United States and manufacturers have until 2027 or 2028 to reformulate. So this isn’t a permanent situation. It’s sort of a hold, a ban.

on the situation, which I hope it will be permanent.

Kimberly Snyder (05:33.421)
Please go, the show is…

Kimberly Snyder (06:54.286)
Okay, coming back after.

Child emergency of sorts.

Okay, so I’ll start this again.

It says, while Red Number 3 was banned in the United States, manufacturers have until 2027 or 2028 to reformulate. So it’s not a permanent, permanent situation, although I hope it will be in the end, but rather a pause while they have an opportunity to change their formula. There are many other hidden dangers of artificial food dyes that are still being used and linked to cancer and hyperactivity. For example, in 2023, a study by Sacred Heart University published in the journal Digital Commons

found that artificial food dyes were correlated with ADHD in children. Carcinogenic risks and neurotoxicity found that 73 % of children with ADHD showed fewer symptoms when artificial food dyes were removed from their diet. As a mother, I can say that this information is absolutely frightening, that there could be snacks and foods that are common, that are given out at birthday parties.

Kimberly Snyder (08:09.478)
and at schools even that are actually linked to cancer. Right? So this is the world we live in where we want to not be fearful as we move through the world but have our eyes very much open. So there’s other dyes though that are out there that I want us to talk about. So there’s red 40, there’s yellow five and yellow six which contain contaminants such as benzidine, a known human carcinogen linked with cancer.

The FDA permits low levels of this contaminant, but it can potentially release in the digestive tract leading to higher exposure than previously estimated. So this reminds me of how what’s allowed in crops, for example, in non-organic crops, the Roundup and the pesticides and the fungicides. basically pesticides are neurotoxic. They’re designed to disable the

the brains, basically the central nervous system of these pests. And so there’s this argument that, well, you know, we are far more neurologically developed than the pests. But the problem is in small amounts, can bioaccumulate and bioaccumulate over and over again, the more we eat these foods, and it can start to have really harmful effects over time. So these food dyes are similar in that a small amount is okay.

Who’s saying a small amount is okay? Because over time, especially if kids are thinking these snacks are okay, they’re approved and they’re eating them over and over again, it can very much build up in the body. Blue one and green three are other ones that have been associated with tumors, kidney damage and neurotoxicity in animal studies. scary stuff, stuff that no one wants to put in their bodies. And I will list out a couple of these.

Sources here now. So red number four. This is candies and sweets like gummies, Skittles, &Ms, Starbursts, lollipops and hard candies, red and pink frostings, and fruit flavored chewing gum. Now, I’m a mom as well. I know what it’s like when kids want to have candy and sweets sometimes. I don’t keep this in the house, but Halloween, do my kids eat Skittles sometimes? Yes. You know, parade of

Kimberly Snyder (10:33.56)
What’s it called? Memorial Day? In our town, they throw the candy out of the trucks. Sometimes will they have some Starbursts? Yes. But is this a regular occurrence? No. So again, it’s not all or nothing. None of us is going to have, you we’re not going to be able to give our kids perfect foods. And I think in our world today, you know, avoid it 100%. But just to be aware that these dyes can really affect their behavior and their health is something to really note.

I will say in terms of lollipops, there’s the earth yum. There’s these very natural, sometimes in our kids’ pinatas at birthday parties, we’ll put those really natural lollipops that don’t have these types of dyes. So thankfully there’s some great options out there. Now there’s also beverages to avoid for the large part. There’s fruit punch and sports drinks like Powerade and Gatorade. It has all kinds of food dyes, so we definitely want to avoid those products.

sodas like Mountain Dew, Cold Red, Big Red, flavored water and juice drinks like Kool-Aid and Capri Sun, and energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster. So these are not beverages that we wanna choose on a regular basis. What my kids love to drink is coconut water. They also like Olypop, which has sort of a prebiotic soda, fairly low in sugar. They like Poppy.

So there’s other options out there which have that flavored, sometimes fizzy taste for kids that they may like, but without this crap, this really, really, you know, shockingly bad ingredients that we don’t want in our family’s bodies. It’s also in snack foods, colored chips, some flavors of Doritos, flavored popcorn, fruit snacks and fruit roll-ups. And here’s a really big one to avoid, breakfast cereals, Froot Loops, Trix.

I highly recommend if cereal is part of your family’s breakfast, trying to wean off your children off cereal in general, or at least making it not every day. This is something that Vajayjay, my RUVD teacher, talks about how really cold, cold milk, cold breakfast cereal can be really tough on your digestion first thing in the morning, coupled with the fact that it often has gluten, it often has these horrible food dyes, it has sugars, it has so many ingredients.

Kimberly Snyder (12:55.288)
that are really starting the day on a down for you and your kids. So what do we have instead? Well, there’s oatmeal, which can be really delicious with sliced bananas. You can put goji berries in it. You can get low sugar oatmeal. These days you can make a wrap, at least to have wraps. My kids love avocado toast. We use sourdough bread, sourdough bagels with avocado smashed. These are some other options that you may think about for breakfast.

which are giving your kids new grounding, healthy fats, even good protein. Sometimes we forget that wheat and sourdough can have really wonderful levels of protein, which they need for school to get through the day. And there’s other great options as well. Sometimes my kids like savory foods. So sometimes we’ll even have rice and beans for breakfast or bean burrito, which sounds a little bit, know, heartier, but it just depends on the day, right? But these are other options besides the breakfast cereal.

So desserts and baked goods often have a lot of food dyes. There’s the red velvet cake and cupcakes, strawberry and cherry flavored ice cream, pudding and jello. Jello has so much crap in it. The gelatin itself, it’s not something that we wanna consume on a regular basis. And then condiments, the maruchino cherries, the barbecue sauce that’s not organic, ketchup that’s not organic, some salad dressings. By the way, a lot of salad dressings can contain

really low quality vegetable oils. So it’s not something that I recommend. Over on our website we have, and in my books, we have tons of salad dressing recipes. Really simple. My older son will have an enormous bowl of salad and the dressing I give him is just olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and sea salt. And he loves it. He loves the crunch. My little one loves creamy. So my other go-to for him is tahini, lemon juice, and…

a little bit of water and sea salt. And also we can save a lot of money by having to buy all these bottled salad dressings, which are quite small and often a much higher cost versus getting a nice bulk balsamic, a bigger container of tahini and so on. So let’s talk about yellow five common foods. It’s just, it’s in everything, essentially processed food wise, include frostings, pickles.

Kimberly Snyder (15:20.076)
Macaroni and cheese, butter and margarine, ice creams, popsicles, mini sodas, more breakfast cereals, Kool-Aid. So when we think about the power of nature and we look out and I’m looking out over the beautiful trees in the mountains right now, there is a color palette that we see in nature. And sometimes it’s really bright, right? You think about a really bright orange, but there’s a soothingness, a naturalness to it.

Now think about if you were to go into the gas station and you looked at the, you know, the Frost brands of Gatorade or whatever that, you know, those types of energy drinks are where it’s just like, whoa, and there’s like almost sparkles and this like crazy looking green. Remember that more and more we’re trying to align to nature’s power. We’re trying to align to the center of us, the power in our heart, the power to be our naturally most healthy and our naturally most beautiful and full of life.

And anything so artificially made and colored is not in alignment with that. And we’ll only bring down our overall energy. Right? So let’s talk about some other brands with the… Now there’s a different food diet. Sorry, I’m going to a different category here. There’s so many! Yellow 6, Common Foods. I’m talking Jolly Ranchers, Nerds, &Ms, Doritos, Ruffles, Fritos, Cheetos, Captain Crunch.

Lucky Charms, popcorn, popsicles, puddings, custards, and nacho cheese. So as a crunch lover myself, I’ve noticed that my kids love crunchy foods too. So for the gas station, sometimes they’ll want Pringles as a special treat. But what I keep at home, so I don’t buy that at home, but I’ll get some organic non-GMO.

chips or even the siate chips which are made of cassava and avocado oil so they don’t have the vegetable oils and well we love salsa we love guacamole so you can find ways to replace these foods at home that are much much healthier for your kids without these commercial brands now I get it that sometimes depending where you live it can be a little bit more convenient to source or to find but that’s where online shopping I think can be so great especially with things like chips

Kimberly Snyder (17:41.848)
that you can buy online and it can ship from a further distance. So check that out for sure for yourself. And here’s some scary stats that I wanted to bring up. Artificial dyes, because they’re stable and they’re so inexpensive to make, it’s a global market that was valued, artificial food dyes were valued at 2.1 billion in 2019 and they are projected to reach

3.5 billion by 2027. Billions of dollars. So when you think about that and you think about what the average person eats in a day and your child or a family member, I have someone on my saloon team I know who’s very concerned with how her partner eats. Right? So sometimes we can see what’s going on with other people. We get concerned and we’re not in direct or as much control.

can’t even control our kids food, but we do control what we stock at home, what the meal structure is like for the most part for young children. I haven’t gotten to the teenage years yet, so I can’t speak to that, but my kids are four and eight. So as a mama, I still do have a lot of control over the food and my goal is to give them a really healthy foundation for those food memories and for the food cravings and just their microbiome for as long as possible. So.

We can’t control everyone, but this is a great show to share with someone perhaps when you start to realize that these food dyes can be neurotoxic. They can mess with your brain, right? In a world where we see so much going on with Alzheimer’s and dementia and Parkinson’s. In a world where we see unfortunately a growing risk of cancer incidence, many different types of cancer, and also just a general anxiety.

and depression and the ADHD and all the spectrum of behavioral disorders, we realize that there’s something really sinister that can be happening with these ingredients. And so what we wanna do is pull back more and more, again, day by day, the choices. So I don’t wanna stress you out if your kids still love some of these foods, if there’s still a percentage of this in your pantry and in your fridge.

Kimberly Snyder (20:07.106)
But what we want to do is we want to start to shift the percentage. Let’s say there’s, you know, 40 % coming in like that. We start to move down to 30%, 20%. And we start to bring in replacements. And then over time, we start to realize, hey, I actually like these sea crackers better, or I don’t need that breakfast cereal. I found this incredible oatmeal or even granola that I like so much more. That’s natural. It doesn’t have any food dyes. Wow, I’m starting to get used to snacking on my own trail mix with

cashews and goji berries and almonds and even dark chocolate chips. So I don’t really need this junky Doritos or whatever it is. We just start to shift and this is a far more sustainable way to create change versus trying to, I’ve seen with clients trying to clear everything out. It may work for a short time and then it starts to come back in sometimes even stronger than the first time because we can feel like we were forced out or squeezed out or things pushed out in a much more…

aggressive fashion. So sometimes smaller shifts can actually create much more sustainable change. Now, there’s a lot of alternatives these days to synthetic dyes. There’s a lot of plant-based colorants out there. There’s beetroot red. There’s things that are coming from chlorophyll. So you’ll start, hopefully as more of us become aware of this and we start to choose products that are made from natural colorings, we can start to create a greater and greater shift.

in the commercialization of foods, in the ways in which foods are being marketed to children. There’ll be more of a demand for these better items to come about. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever worked with natural food colorings. I make a birthday cake for everyone in the family, and it’s just the good old vanilla color with a coconut frosting. So I haven’t really experimented with natural food colorings myself.

But I know that they’re out there and hopefully we’ll find them more into different snack foods and commercial foods. So for example, I’ll give you an example here. Turmeric can be a really great, and saffron can be a really great replacement for yellow 5 and number 6. So how amazing, we could get this amazing root into other foods. The beetroot powder, of course, would replace red number 40. And we could use that in beverages and…

Kimberly Snyder (22:35.342)
Candies and yogurt and orange bee could be replaced by paprika, which is of course wonderful for our gut. It’s even wonderful for our eyes. And brown and black dyes could be replaced by kakao as we say in our family, because we grow, I don’t even say it the right way anymore, cacao. But me and the little ones say cacao. In Hawaii we have hundreds of cacao trees.

and we grow it and so it’s a really sacred plant. You can see the beautiful color along with coffee and how powerful that would be to use instead. So I wanna talk about now other ingredients that we want to keep an eye out for and avoid as much as possible besides the reds, the yellows, and we didn’t talk about the blues, but anything that all these artificial food dyes, you can see them on ingredient lists besides the brands I just called out.

When you go to the store or when you’re buying online, just take a quick scan of the ingredient list and avoid foods that have them. And again, there’s just so many different and better alternatives out there. And again, check my website for, you we have so many recipes for making your own granola bars, salad dressings, snack foods, everything. So another ingredient or another category we want to avoid is artificial sweeteners. Aspartame, for example, in a 2014 study.

published in the Journal of Nature, found that aspartame can alter gut microbiota, potentially leading to glucose intolerance. Sucralose was found, 2017 study in Frontiers in Psychology found that sucralose can create inflammation. So when it comes to sweeteners, what I like to use is raw honey in small amounts. Sometimes even stevia, it depends, it can be more processed than others.

Not a ton of stevia. And monk fruit, which is in our glowing greens powder, which can be really great for your gut health, is a really wonderful alternative. So it gives, even though there’s a lot of really green greens in our glowing greens powder, I hope you’ve tried it. If not, please check it out. I just drank a double dose when I was upstairs. I’m more concerned these days than usual with heavy metals.

Kimberly Snyder (24:53.198)
circulating around because of the fires and all the airborne heavy metals which came from the many thousands of houses that burned. So I’ve been having two doses at least a day of the glowing greens powder because the combination of the spirulina and the chlorella plus the ashitaba and the amalaki get very cleansing to the system and I feel it. I feel like I need more of it right now to keep myself healthy. But anyways, the monk fruit helps to balance the taste in our really

wonderful harmonized formula. So preservatives are another, so just to close the loop on that, I like to use a little bit of maple syrup sometimes, but in my teas and elixirs, I do usually use the raw honey, which also comes from our farm in small amounts. Okay, so another category I want to bring to the forefront of our awareness is preservatives. Sodium nitrate has been correlated with as a carcinogen in the 2015,

in the World Health Organization in 2015. So I’m talking about preserved meats, convenience foods, like you know when you go and there’s these meats that are sliced in those plastic containers. That is a prime candidate for a food group that would have sodium nitrate. There’s also BHA, which has been correlated in a 2014 study in the Encyclopedia of Toxicology to be a human carcinogen. So

Let’s go back to the sodium nitrate for a moment. It’s also in potato chips, snack foods, certain vegetable oils, butter, lard, cereal. There goes the cereal again. And the BHA would be in snack foods.

sorry, yeah, the BHA is in many of the other similar products as well. So the sodium nitrate and BHA, could also both find in the preserved meats. The best thing I think to do, because when we talk about snack foods, it’s such a huge category. Everything that’s in a box, everything that’s in a bag, we really have to self-advocate and look for ingredient lists, look at ingredient lists. And I wouldn’t be fooled by labels.

Kimberly Snyder (27:06.486)
or the marketing on the front because sometimes it can seem really healthy and it can even use the term natural. It can have beautiful imagery that would appeal to your kids or look really, you know, inviting, but we don’t know until we look at the labels. You know, there’s this little tiny convenience store in my town and I wasn’t really, I was kind of in a rush. I was with the kids. We were going on a picnic and I grabbed,

a tea, a Yerba Mate tea. And then when I was in the car, because I didn’t look at the label, I was really shocked, first of all, at how much sugar it had. And I was shocked to see some of the ingredients that were in there. you know, just time to slow down. The moral of the story is slow down and really look at everything. And then over time, we start to be aware of certain brands we’re drawn to, our go-tos, like we all have, because I use Instacart. So there’s the recently ordered that I go into a lot.

And so it doesn’t have to take so much time long-term, but in the beginning, we definitely want to be more aware and more vigilant. Now, we want to also be aware of MSG, which is in canned soups, processed meats, condiments. A 29th study in the Global Journal of Nutrition and Science found that MSG, known as monosodium glutamate, is hazardous to human health. It’s been linked to…

hepatoxicity, renal damage, fibroid, and obesity. So sort of this flavoring ingredient and you just want to be aware in seasoning blends and bouillon cubes and cookies and just really try to avoid MSG. And then next, let’s talk about emulsifiers, which can lead to gut inflammation. A 2015 study published in the Journal of Nature

found that common food emulsifiers, particularly polysorbate 80, can significantly disrupt the gut microbiota, leading to increased inflammation and potentially raising the risk of metabolic diseases. So polysorbate 80 is something that keeps ingredients evenly mixed and prevents the oil from separating in food. So again, when we’re talking about processed foods, it needs to be preserved.

Kimberly Snyder (29:24.792)
So things that are keeping it looking like food, even though it’s around for far longer than fresh natural food. Now there’s something called carbomethyl cellulose, which is used in pharmaceutical products like gas relief drops. It’s even used in liquid medicine for babies. And it’s also in ice cream, salad dressings, cheese, infant formula, baked goods.

milk, different candies. So you want to look at the ingredients knowing that again over the long term this stuff can really mess up your gut health. The polysorbate 80 is in breads, cake mix, frozen custard, sherbert, frozen desserts, and shortening oil. So let’s take a deep breath after all that information and again a lot of the research and the studies are at mysalooner.com.

You certainly don’t have to remember that whole long list or every single detail of this. But the main points here are that we want to self advocate when it comes to food. Our bodies really are our temples. And when we take care of our bodies and we eat really whole, naturally grown foods, what happens is we start to sink into this coherence that I talk about with the heart, this alignment.

It means our guts work well. It means the messages from the gut up to the brain, meaning our moods, our neurotransmitters, we start to feel more grounded in our daily life. We feel more emotionally stable. We feel happier. And then our skin starts to look better and our hair and our bodies with far more easefulness and energy and we can avoid a lot of illness and disease. So food is such a foundational part of our lifestyle, right? I started off in nutrition. was…

So much of my world for so long and it’s expanded to these other cornerstones But food is and will always remain very foundational because it has such a profound effect across our entire lives So again, the food dyes the red three has been is currently bound, but we also want to red 40 yellow five yellow six. There’s other ones who just look for artificial food dyes. We want to and colorings

Kimberly Snyder (31:49.72)
We wanna also avoid artificial sweeteners as much as possible, preservatives like Cytium Notrate and BHA. We wanna avoid MSG and we wanna avoid emulsifiers like polysorbates and also carbomethylcellulose, which can affect our gut’s health and create more inflammation in the body. Simple is best. Learning a couple simple recipes for everything from desserts to lunch foods to dinners.

is the way to go. I cook really simply for my family and I rotate in different veggies and different seasonings. But at least a few times a week we’re having some type of soup with brown rice or quinoa. I make a lot of stir fries and noodles, rice noodles with veggies in it. Sometimes I make tofu. We eat a lot of salads. And I do, you know, I find it quite easy to avoid packaged foods for the most part as long as you keep it really simple because we’re all busy.

And we’re all running around, but at the same time, we can still be healthy with just making these choices, mastering a couple of recipes, planning a little bit ahead, keeping things stocked at home. All of this is very helpful in the long run. So thank you so much for joining me today. And remember, the information is at my saloon, as well as other articles I think you would find helpful and to enhance your lifestyle.

Remember to please check out our digestive enzymes and our SBO probiotics and detoxi to really keep your body so fortified and strong. These are products you want to take long term as I do every day, long term, so that your body can absorb, can expel toxicity, and it can keep your microbiome healthy. Our SBO probiotics are based in the soil, so you don’t want to just take them for a month or two. You want the soil in your body, your gut microbiome to serve you, to really work well.

for your life. In the end, I think this saves money in terms of your skin will look great long term and your energy will be up and you won’t have to, you hopefully take as many pharmaceuticals for illnesses. It really starts with investing in your daily health, right? So check it out for yourself. Thank you so much for being part of the community. I send you so much love. Remember, I’m here for you always. You can ask me questions, the podcast tab on the website.

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and I’ll see you back here Monday for our next interview show. Take care, sending much love.