Americans eat too much processed food laced with pesticides and additives. The speaker argues for whole foods: wild-caught fish, grass-fed beef, organic plants, free-range chickens. The point is simple: you're not just what you eat, you're what you eat eats.
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I think one of the biggest problems facing America today is that we are just not eating a whole food diet. General rule of thumb, we should be eating foods in their whole form. You know, very often it's not the food itself, it's the distance from the food to the table. It's the chemicals, the additives, the preservatives, the pesticides, the herbicides, the insecticides, all of these things that we add to foods that take them from their whole food state and turn them into a processed state. One of the ways that you can avoid this is eating wild caught fish, plants that are raised in organic environments and eating grass fed grass, finished beef. You want to eat free, free range chickens, chickens that are out there in the field that are eating worms and bugs and grasses, the things that nature meant them to eat. And very often what happens is we just go to the supermarket and we're grabbing things off the shelf and we're not thinking about what did this animal eat that I'm about to eat. We are not just what we eat, we're what we eat, eats.