In tonight’s episode – Ignorance Is Bliss…Until You Get Diabetes – I get real about the fact that getting real about food is not blissful; how living in a world where you just choose between the red and purple zero-calorie sports drink; the veggie puffs and the protein bar; or the salmon and the tuna feels blissful… until you get cancer, mercury poisoning, heart disease and/or diabetes; how opening up the menu and having to choose between the industrially raised corn-fed steak full of hormones and the industrially raised corn-fed chicken full of hormones can cause food-paralysis and First World eating disorders like Orthorexia (or fear of eating non-healthy foods), when the reality is that people in sub-Saharan Africa aren’t tortured over the fact that the grain of rice that just came off the U.N. plane has a big carbon footprint and is covered in pesticide residue; and how to accept the cold-hard realities of no longer being ignorant, which is to realize that at least you’re thin and can feel superior to people who don’t know any better.

In tonight’s episode – Vitamins Come From Food, Not Gummies – I get real about foodiness “vitamins”; how the real reason we think we need to take foodiness vitamins is because we don’t eat real food with real vitamins; the fact that nobody actually knows what vitamins taken out of food and put into supplements actually do or don’t do; how taking vitamins out of context and putting them in another context is like when Madonna acts; how putting vitamins into things like Gummy Bears is just giving people an excuse to sit around and eat candy; how certain vitamins can be toxic in large doses, which taking in candy form puts people at risk for; how if you’re going to overdose (or worse, choke) at least go out in a blaze of glory like Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix – not sitting on the couch popping Gummy Vitamins in front of Bridezillas; and how to realistically get all the vitamins you need – which is to just eat real food.

In tonight’s episode – You Are What Your Fish Ate – I get real about what foodiness has done to fish; about how we’re all constantly told by too blond, too skinny, too happy, tan-in-January nutritionists on morning talk shows to eat oily fish like salmon or tuna in order to get our Omega 3’s, while conveniently ignoring that farmed salmon is low in Omega-3’s (and high in Omega-6’s, which can cause heart disease) and tuna is toxic with mercury (and on the verge of extinction); how non-foodies are vaguely aware something is up with fish, but they think, “I’m not eating McDonalds, so how bad could it be?”; and how to realistically get real about fish: only eat “wild” salmon; try smaller, lower profile fish like sardines and herring; and don’t eat tuna at all – it’s completely f*ed up.