Being obese puts people at risk for chronic disease like diabetes and is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. In this episode we explore a policy approach to deal with this epidemic – a tax on sugary drinks. Kelly Brownell, director of the World Food Policy Center at the Sanford School of […]
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Ep 71 Rethinking Food Policy
Kelly Brownell has stepped away from his role as dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy to launch a new World Food Policy Center at Duke. He talks with Sanford’s new dean, Judith Kelley, about key challenges that he hopes his new center will begin to address. For example, he hopes to get people […]
Ep. 70 Rethinking How Fisheries Contribute to Global Food Need
It’s often said that one in 10 people on the planet is hungry, and that number is on the rise. Abigail Bennett is the lead author of a new report on the contribution of fisheries to food and nutrition security. Abby has served as a fellow at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and […]
Ep. 68 How Test Scores and Federal Aid are Connected
There’s an intriguing new study that shows a connected between when low-income families receive supplemental nutrition, or SNAP assistance, and student test scores. The study is believed to be the first to show a connection between benefits of this sort and academic performance. The authors of the study are Anna Gassman-Pines and Laura Bellows. Gassman-Pines […]
Ep. 27: What Health Secrets Do Our Grocery Receipts Hold?
While Emily Oster was pregnant, she evaluated data behind many of the accepted rules of pregnancy. (Should you drink caffeine? Is sushi OK?) She says most advice given to moms-to-be is wrong. More recently, she’s been studying how grocery store purchases change once a person has been diagnosed with a health challenge like diabetes. The […]
Ep. 14: Future of Food Policy: Chile Models Ways to End Obesity
Barry Popkin is one of the world’s leading thinkers when it comes to human relationship to food. He runs the Nutrition Transition Research program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sanford School @ Duke · Future of Food Policy: Chile Models Ways to End Obesity When asked to point to a country […]