Podcasts
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Barry M. Popkin, PhD
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition; Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Food and the Environment
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Barry M. Popkin, PhD
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition; Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sugar, Beverages, and Health
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Barry M. Popkin, PhD
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition; Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Nutrition Transition
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Michael W. Hamm, PhD
C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Crop and Soil Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University
Farm-to-School Programs
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Michael W. Hamm, PhD
C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Crop and Soil Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University
Sustainable Agriculture and Public Health
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Michael W. Hamm, PhD
C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Crop and Soil Sciences, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University
The Importance of Sustainable Food Systems
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Christina Economos, PhD
New Balance Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Associate Director, John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Shape Up Somerville - A Social Movement
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Christina Economos, PhD
New Balance Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Associate Director, John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
How the Environment Affects Diet and Activity
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Kelly D. Brownell, PhD
Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
A Perspective on Taxing Sugared Beverages
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David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatric, Harvard Medical School; Director, Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program
The Glycemic Index
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David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatric, Harvard Medical School; Director, Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program
Soft Drinks and Fast Food
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David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatric, Harvard Medical School; Director, Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program
An Integrative, Family-based Approach to Childhood Obesity
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Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Foundation Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
Applications of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Weight Issues
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Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Foundation Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
Principles and Applications of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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Marcia L. Pelchat, PhD
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Human Food Cravings
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Marcia L. Pelchat, PhD
Associate Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Human Food Addiction?
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David Wallinga, MD, MPA
Wm T Grant Foundation Fellow, University of Minnesota; Director, Food and Health Program Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Use of Antibiotics in Modern Farm Animals
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David Wallinga, MD, MPA
Wm T Grant Foundation Fellow, University of Minnesota; Director, Food and Health Program Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Overfed and Undernourished: Downstream Impacts of a Flawed Farm Policy?
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David Wallinga, MD, MPA
Wm T Grant Foundation Fellow, University of Minnesota; Director, Food and Health Program Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
High Fructose-Corn Syrup
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Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Researcher, Unit on Growth and Obesity, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Preventing Excessive Weight Gain in Adolescent Girls at High-Risk for Adult Obesity
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Susan Peters, APRN, MPH; Sonia Pereira, PhD
Peters-Director, Physical Activity & Wellness Project, New Haven Public Schools, Supervisor/Clinician, School Based Health Center: Yale-New Haven Hospital; Pereira-Term Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
Is PAW Working? Results from an Evaluation of the New Haven Public Schools Health/Wellness Initiative: Physical Activity & Wellness (PAW)
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Lori Dorfman, DrPH
Director of Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute
News Frames of Health Issues
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Lori Dorfman, DrPH
Director of Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute
The Eyeballs Have Moved: Marketing to Children and Youth in the Digital Age
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Michael S. Kaufman, JD
Chairman of the National Restaurant Association Board of Directors and Co-President of Enovo Restaurant Ventures LLC
America’s Restaurants: Serving Our Nation
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Tim Lobstein, PhD
Director of the Childhood Obesity Programme at the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF)
Obesonomics: Describing the Obesogenic Economy
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Eric A. Finkelstein, MHA, PhD, MA
Health Economist and the Director of the Public Health Economics Program at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International
The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It
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Jennifer McTiernan; Melina Shannon-DiPietro
Executive Director, CitySeed; Director, Yale Sustainable Food Project
Sustainability and Healthy Food Access in the Community
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Brian Wansink, PhD
Executive Director, USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion; John S. Dyson Endowed Chair, Applied Economics and Management Department, Cornell University; Director, Cornell Food and Brand Lab
Turning Mindless Eating into Healthy Eating
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Inas Rashad, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University
Fast Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity
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Stephen Teret, JD, MPH
Associate Dean, Professor of Health, Policy and Management, Director of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
How the Law Can Improve Nutrition and Health
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James Gustave Speth, JD
Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy at Yale University
The Coming Transformation: America, Capitalism and the Environment
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Rogan Kersh, PhD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service
The Politics of Food and National Nutrition Policy
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Elizabeth Goodman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health & Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Child and Adolescent Obesity Program at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
Obesity and the Biology of Social Justice
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Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSC
Director of Global Health Policy for PepsiCo; former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Towards a 21st Century Agenda for Nutrition
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B. Timothy Walsh, MD
William & Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University and Director of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute
Eating Disorders and Obesity
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Alberto Cormillot, MD
Founder of the Cormillot Health Network
Obesity, Nutrition, and Health Education Network
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Walter C. Willett, MD, MPH, DrPH
Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
Eliminating Trans Fat from the Food Supply: The Tortuous Road from Science to Policy
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Robert I. Berkowitz, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of
Pennsylvania
Behavioral and Pharmacological Treatment for Overweight Adolescents
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Mark S. Gold, MD
Donald Dizney Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Florida
Could Food Addiction Explain Rising Obesity Rates?
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Thomas A. Dziki, LEED® AP
Vice President of Sustainable Development for United Natural Foods, Inc.
Beginning the Sustainable Journey
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Mark V. Roehling, PhD, JD
Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University
Promoting Fair and Effective Employment Practices or Contributing to Employee Poor Health? An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Proposed Increased Legal Protection for Overweight Employees
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Neil D. Hamilton, JD
Opperman Chair of Law, Drake University Law School
Food Democracy: The Role of Law in Shaping America's Diet
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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; John Worobey, PhD
Director of Nutritional Sciences Preschool at Rutgers University; Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University
Educating Children at a Nutritional Sciences Preschool
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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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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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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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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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Marion Nestle, PhD
Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University
Food Politics: The Perfect Storm
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