As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to the full Senate, healthy food activist and entrepreneur Vani Hari is thrilled by the national attention on his “Making America Healthy Again” movement.
Through her blog, called FoodBabe, she has been a relentless advocate for healthier, safer products from America’s largest food companies — and frustrated by the capture of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by lobbyists for Big Food.
Hari has written four bestsellers on healthy eating and joins hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on The Drill Down to discuss her own health journey and answer whether she might join the new administration of President Donald Trump.
The child of two Indian immigrants, Hari grew up eating typical American fast foods and the highly processed foods of her new country. “We were one of the only Indian families in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the time,” she recalls. Later, as a young professional working in management consulting, Hari gorged on expense account meals of rich food.
“I was in and out of doctor’s offices as a result of the way I was eating,” she recalls. “However, no doctor asked me what I was eating. They literally just put me on four different medications to control my asthma, three different medications to control my eczema, antibiotics, and prednisone.” […]
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