{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Flets-get-real.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fc72a9d0d-c72a9d0d","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 33: Super Foods Are Super F*ed Up","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e3a868/e3a86842-b7f3-4de5-a8f2-2667dcd78b6a/4c305814-68a7-4eb4-a2c0-a2ebe2bf436a/1457536127artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"In tonights episode - Super Foods Are Super F\\*ed Up - I get real about what foodiness has done to super foods; how icons of power foods like olive oil, which is laced with chlorophyll, blueberries, which are toxic with pesticides, soy which give you man-boobs, and sardines which give you mercury poisoning have been knocked off their pedestals by corruption like John Edwards, Lance Armstrong and John Travolta; how finding out that all the foods that separate the soy and sardine-eating us from the 7-11 cupcake eating them can actually be really bad for you is enough to make you reach for those Omega-3 enhanced Oreos and hope for the best; and how to realistically deal with the knowledge that sometimes there are no right choices when it comes to eating real food - which is to make others feel inferior for not knowing. This program was sponsored by Whole Foods Market. The more you know [about food] the more paralyzed you feel. The foods I even I held up as perfect are maybe more like John Edwards and less like Barack Obama. --Erica Wides on Lets Get Real\n\n"}