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EPISODE · Jul 20, 2026 · 5 MIN

Pharma, Food & the Fluent Consumer- Ep.4/4

from Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy · host Meera & Ashok Vasudevan

Share your thoughtsWe read our lunch like a lab report — and feel virtuous about a bar built in a factory while waving off dal and rice as “just carbs.” In the finale of “Off the Treadmill,” co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan take the third corner of the triangle — us — and show how our own fluency makes us the perfect customer. Then they step off.As always in this series, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly in the kitchen, never the clinic.The first two corners of the triangle were about them — Pharma and the food industry. This one is about us. For most of history, we judged food by taste, smell, and satiety. Then we learned the language of nutrients, and that vocabulary now sits on every packet. It's useful — and it's also exactly what makes us easy to sell to. The moment a population learns a word, an industry can sell to that word without changing the product at all.In this episode•    Information vs. fluency: how knowing the vocabulary turns you into a target•    “Pork. The Other White Meat” — moving the word instead of the product•    Eating the scorecard: the protein bar vs. the plate of dal and rice•    The “nutrient of the decade” treadmill — and why last year's hero ends up on the discount shelf•    Stepping off: the simple, old-fashioned prescription that closes the seriesThanks for tuning in to "Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy"!Hosted by Meera & Ashok VasudevanStay Connected#PayTheFarmerNotThePharmacy#PlantBasedWellness#NaturalFood#AffordableWellness#GutHealth#ImmunityBoost#NutritionTips#CSAW (Centre for the Spread of Affordable Wellness)#Meeravasudevan#Ashokvasudevanhttps://umaglobalfoods.com/https://csaw.cohttps://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/pay-the-farmer-not-the-pharmacy/id1512934794https://open.spotify.com/show/34nzNQQ62O8tygMaut2h8V

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Share your thoughts We read our lunch like a lab report — and feel virtuous about a bar built in a factory while waving off dal and rice as “just carbs.” In the finale of “Off the Treadmill,” co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan take the third corner of the triangle — us — and show how our own fluency makes us the perfect customer. Then they step off. As always in this series, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly...

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