Podcasts
Our collection of podcasts is available for download on iTunes U, under the Yale University Health & Medicine – Nutrition & Obesity section, or you may subscribe to a RSS Feed that will automatically update whenever new content is released. You may listen to our featured podcasts in streaming mp3 format by following the links below:
David E. Frisvold, PhD
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan
Expanding Exposure: Can Increasing the Daily Duration of Head Start Reduce Childhood Obesity?
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Michael Pollan, MA
Knight Professor of Journalism; Director of the Knight Program in Science & Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley; Contributing Writer to The New York Times Magazine
In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution
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K. Michael Cummings, PhD
Chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo; and Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at State University of New York at Albany
What the Marlboro Man Can Teach Us about Fighting the Obesity Epidemic
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Eric Stice, PhD
Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute; Research Professor at the University of Texas
Relation of Obesity to Disturbances in Reward from Food Instake and Anticipated Intake: An fMRI Study
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Roni A. Neff, SM, PhD
Research Director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
Yesterday's Dinner, Tomorrow's Weather: Today's News?
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Robert L. Rabin, JD, PhD
A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
The Comparative Efficacy of Tort and Regulation in Addressing Public Health Concerns: Tobacco Control Strategies and Beyond
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Tomas Philipson, PhD
Professor of Economics, the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
The Economics of Obesity
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Gina Kolata, MS
Science Journalist for The New York Times
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss - and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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John H. Cawley, PhD
Associate Professor of Policy Analysis & Management at Cornell University
Raising Red Flags: The Impact of the Federal Trade Commission Initiative to Decrease Deceptive Advertising for Weight Loss Products
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Mary K. Engle, Esq
Associate Director for Advertising Practices for The Federal Trade Commission
The FTC's Study on Food Marketing to Children
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Sandra B. Sherman and Tracey Giang
Director of Nutrition Education and Director of the Fresh Food Financing Initiative, respectively, The Food Trust, Philadelphia, PA
Food Access and Diet Related Disease
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Gary D. Foster, PhD
Director, Center for Obesity Research and Education; Professor, Medicine & Public Health, Temple University
Preventing Obesity: Schools and Beyond
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Daniel C. Esty, JD
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Environment, Agriculture and Obesity: New Thinking on Sustainability
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Cole Kazdin, MS
Producer, ABC News, Good Morning America
How News is Made
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Tamas L. Horvath, PhD
Chairman of the Section of Comparative Medicine and Professor of Comparative Medicine, Neurobiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Yale University.
Metabolic Hormones Affect the Brain
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Harriet Worobey, MA and John Worobey, PhD
Director of Nutritional Sciences Preschool at Rutgers University and Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University, respectively.
Educating Children at a Nutritional Sciences Preschool
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Richard Wittberg, PhD
Director, Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department.
Children's Cardiovascular Risk, Fitness, Academic Achievement, and their Investigation in Wood County, West Virginia
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Barry E. Levin, MD
Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosciences at the New Jersey Medical School.
Obesity: An Ounce of Prevention Trumps All Attempted Cures
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Marion
Nestle, PhD
Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at
New York University.
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Stephen
Sugarman, JD
Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley.
A Radically Different Way to Attack Childhood Obesity -- Performance-Based
Regulation of the Food Industry
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Joan
Gussow, MEd
Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Education at Columbia University.
The Case Against Eating by the Numbers
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