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Lessons from a 13-year old lobbying for gluten labeling, with Jon and Jax Bari
Episode 14
At the 2023 HHS Food Is Medicine Summit, one item on the buffet was considered safe for 10-year-old Jax Bari to eat: an apple.
Everything else was a g…
6 hours ago
Inside the race to understand America’s growing food allergy epidemic with Ilana Golant
Episode 13
Ten percent of Americans are estimated to have food allergies — and that’s probably an undercount. The government hasn't updated its population data …
2 weeks ago
Why millions of people are dropping from SNAP and what comes next, with Gina Plata-Nino
Episode 12
More than 4 million people have dropped out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the past year — an unprecedented drop that hasn’t got…
4 weeks ago
Media roundtable: Covering MAHA with Tal Kopan, Deena Shanker, and Lisa Held
Episode 11
This episode is something a little different: a roundtable with three journalists who've been deep in this moment in food policy, talking frankly abo…
1 month, 1 week ago
Meet the billionaire trying to clean up the food supply: Todd Wagner.
Episode 10
Todd Wagner, a tech billionaire and Hollywood mogul best known for co-founding Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban, isn’t particularly well known in food w…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What Big Food wants in the ultra-processed foods debate, with Rocco Renaldi
Episode 9
The debate about ultra-processed foods is loud in America right now, but zoom out, and it's everywhere. Governments around the world are trying to fi…
2 months, 1 week ago
Nora LaTorre on why school lunch is the biggest lever for children's health
Episode 8
Schools are the largest restaurant chain in America, bigger than Subway, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined. Nearly 100,000 locations, 30 million kid…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The food industry's MAHA moment with Melissa Hockstad
Episode 7
HHS Secretary Kennedy says the food industry is poisoning us. The White House shares AI videos of him body slamming a Twinkie. And somehow, the trade…
3 months, 1 week ago
Why infant formula is not a niche issue with Mallory Whitmore, The Formula Mom
Episode 6
Infant formula isn't some niche parenting topic. It's a public health issue, a food security issue, and in many ways an infrastructure issue.
The 2022…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
What we still don't know about ultra-processed foods with Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall
Episode 5
The American diet has become dominated by ultra-processed foods, but it’s taken a while for scientists to even begin to understand what this really m…
4 months ago