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Banning Neon Cupcakes While Ignoring Real Public Health Threats: Welcome to America 2025 · Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson

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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Welcome back to 4Q, the podcast where.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: We make sense of food, health and the madness of government.
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  Priorities armed, um, only with science,
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  sarcasm.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: And a blood pressure cuff.
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  I'm Dr. Terry Simpson, your chief medical
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  explanationist, and this is Fork U
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  Fork University, where we make sense of the
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  madness, bust a few myths, and teach you a
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  little bit about food and medicine.
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  And today, we're talking about the
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  grand performance of banning petroleum based food
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  dyes while gutting the science that can
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  actually save lives.
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  First, let's tackle the food dye
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  panic. The headlines scream you're
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  eating petroleum. Let's calm down and
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  use some chemistry. Petroleum and isn't
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  gasoline.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: It's ancient dead plankton turned into
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  hydrocarbons. The same carbon and
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  hydrogen building blocks.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Found in avocado oil, olive oil, and.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: The Omega 3 supplements you love.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Food dyes like Red 40 are
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  purified.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Mostly tested molecules made safely from those
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  hydrocarbons. Saying you're eating gasoline
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  because Red 40 comes from hydrocarbons is
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  like saying you're eating explosives because table
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  salt contain sodium. And the
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  best part, the same people
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  screaming about petroleum in food dyes are
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  happily swallowing methylene blue, also
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  made from petroleum derivatives.
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  So are your vitamins. Science.
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  It's not just when it's convenient.
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  You're not eating gasoline. You're eating
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  molecules, some tested for safety
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  that just happens to come from ancient
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  carbon. Meanwhile, in the real
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  world, while we celebrate dye free
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  gummies, the federal government is slashing public health
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  funding, including food inspection programs,
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  bird flu monitoring, injury
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  prevention initiatives, research
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  grants that fund actual nutrition and
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  safety studies. We're setting ourselves up for
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  dirtier food, slower outbreak
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  responses, and a world where emerging public
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  health threats don't get studied because we blew the budget
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  keeping cupcakes slightly less neon.
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  And who's in charge of this science? Heavy decision
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  making. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The
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  man who, as far as anyone can find, never
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  took a single science course
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  in college. Naturally, he's now in charge of
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  the agency that oversees America's scientific
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  backbone.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: But, hey, he's doing exactly what he.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Was hired to do. Advocate for things that make food
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  babe and the Instagram wellness crowd happy.
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  Forget real science. Forget investing in
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  systems that keep our food, water and people safe. As long
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  as lettuce doesn't run away with your colon, everything's
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  great. Also in real science, milk might
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  not be so innocent. A recent study found that full fat
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  milk consumption is associated with a higher.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Risk of developing metabolic dysfunction associated with
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  fatty liver disease.
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  If you're keeping track of acronyms and you shouldn't
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  particularly among highly educated populations.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: I know it's correlation.
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  You know that $7 full fat latte
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  might be sneaking toward your fatty liver
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  one creamy sip at a time. And here's the real
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  kicker. We desperately need more follow up and research
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  on findings like these. But if we keep cutting scientific
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  grants to wage war on brightly colored cereal, don't
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  expect many answers anytime soon. So
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  next time you hear about a major public health victory because artificial
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  yellow.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Dye got banned, just remember, you might.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Dodge the neon cupcake, but you'll still.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Be dodging pathogens, unsafe, um, milk
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  and.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Preventable diseases with fewer
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  scientists left to catch them.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: This podcast was written and researched by me, Dr. Terri
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  Simpson.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: And while I am a board certified.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: MD, which frankly gives me more credentials and Robert F.
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  Kennedy Jr. I am not your
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  MD.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: This podcast is for medical education and entertainment
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  purposes only.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: If you need a personal medical advice, please consult
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  a real board certified physician. Not a
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  chiropractor, not an eastern trained shaman,
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  and definitely not some random YouTube guru
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  or RFK Junior 4Q is
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  distributed by our friends at Simpler Media and made possible
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  by the pod God himself, Mr.
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  Evo Tara. And
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  remember, stay skeptical, stay
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  curious, and always fork
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  responsibly.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Nivo.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: I guess we have to have those.
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  >> Dr. Terry Simpson: Dull Canadian Fruit Loops. You know, in
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  Canada they allow all of those colors. They
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  just like their Fruit Loops
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  dull. I don't get it.
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  >> Speaker C: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you've outgrown the fruit
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  loops stage, Dr. Simpson.
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  Anyhow, Canada and food
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  poutine. I don't really care what it's made of,
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  it's delicious.