How Chefs Can Save Lives and Solve America's Public Health Crisis

Throughout the entire interview below, you'll hear over and over again how food education is the solution.

But not once will you hear chefs mentioned as part of the solution.

It is YOUR responsibility to change that, chef.

Because if food education is not your job, whose job is it?

You have to insert yourself into the food conversation.

Who is better qualified to lead the dialogue on food than chefs?

Key Timestamps

1:30 Diabetes isn’t cured in the doctor’s office, it’s cured in the kitchen. ?

5:00 The food industry has convinced us to blame the victim. ?

9:45 What is ultra-processed food? ?

12:00 The problem with food labels. ?

14:00?

• Dr. Hyman teaches a family how to cook. That's not a doctor's job, that's the job of a chef!
• The family did not even have utensils for cooking.?
• Tucker didn’t know that iceberg lettuce has no nutritional value. Most people don't know that.?

23:45 We have a health system that pays no attention to food and a food system that pays no attention to health. —Wendell Berry ?

29:20 Diabetes isn’t cured in the doctor’s office, it’s cured in the kitchen. ?

39:45 Taxpayers pay for the pop tarts and the insulin. --Tucker Carlson ?

44:00 America created the worst diet on the planet and exported it all over the world. ?

49:45 The food industry lobby is maintaining the status quo that is killing us all. You can use your voice on YouTube to fight back and save lives, chef.?

YouTube is the number one TV streaming app in U.S. households. You can speak directly to congressional representatives on the big screen TV in their homes and educate them on food and health.

1:01:30 The dirty money strategy for controlling the narrative on food and health. ?

1:04:30 The King family couldn’t promote healthy food education in the King Center in Atlanta because Coca Cola funds the King center. ?

This is important to note for all you chefs who think getting a show on "real TV" is better than hosting your own show on YouTube that you fully control.

If you think you're going to be able to speak your mind and speak the truth about healthy food on "real TV" you are sadly mistaken.

You will not advocate for anything that the sponsors who pay the bill for your show do not like and you don't pick your sponsors on "real TV".?

But on YouTube, you decide who you work with and you don't have to take dirty money. And you still have a cooking show ON TV!

1:16:00 10-day detox diet. ?

1:23:30 Food as medicine. ?

1:34:25 Food companies make non-toxic versions of their same products to sell in other countries because the food additives they put in the U.S. versions are illegal in other countries. ?

1:35:45 People don’t trust doctors. Chefs do not have that trust problem. What Dr. Hyman is describing without realizing it is a need for chefs to deliver food education. ?

1:41:20 93% of Americans are on the pre-diabetes or diabetes spectrum.

Chefs Have A Major Role To Play In Solving America's Public Health Crisis

This interview is so important, it should be required viewing at culinary schools.

And if you're already a professional chef, what's shared in this interview should be your call to action.

We are in a full on public health crisis and have been for decades and the solution is food education.

If not you, who?

If not now, when?

I can teach you how to start your cooking show in 3 days.

Let me know if you want help being part of the solution.