Podcasts about Big Soda

"Soda Science" takes us deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists shape research to meet industry needs.

Matt and Andrew get to the bottom of gut biomes once and for all. Watch the show on twitch.tv/bestfriends420

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Welcome to Episode 69 of the MFER Podcast! In this explosive episode, I dive deep into the latest headlines shaking up the nation. Join us as we unpack President Trump's controversial 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies, exploring what this means for Hollywood and the global film industry. Is the U.S. movie scene really “dying,” or is this a bold move to protect American cinema? We also break down Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous San Francisco Bay prison, to house “America's most ruthless and violent offenders.” Is this a practical solution or a costly distraction? Finally, we get into RFK Jr.'s battle with soda companies, examining his push against Big Soda and its implications for public health under his HHS leadership. Don't miss this unfiltered discussion packed with insights, hot takes, and bold opinions! Subscribe, like, and hit the bell for more MFER Podcast episodes every week. Drop your thoughts in the comments—what do you think about Trump's tariffs, Alcatraz, or RFK Jr.'s soda crusade?Follow Me Twitter: https://x.com/FoulballPro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foulballproductions Podcast Platforms: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mfer-podcast/id1574605306 #TrumpTariffs #AlcatrazReopening #RFKJr #SodaCompanies #MFERPodcast #HollywoodTariffs #BigSoda #TrumpNews #PodcastEpisode69 #PoliticalNews

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back with another jam-packed episode of MAHA News, and they're not holding back. They roast viral fitness influencers and their absurd morning routines before diving into the shady world of paid conservative shills pushing Big Soda on SNAP recipients. From Michelle Obama's new sports drink collab to RFK Jr.'s game-changing interviews, it's clear the MAHA movement is reshaping the health and political landscape. The guys also break down geoengineering ban efforts in over two dozen states, the Wall Street Journal's pharma spin, and Dr. Suzanne Humphries' red-hot appearance on Rogan where she obliterates vaccine myths and the real story behind polio. This episode blends laughs, righteous anger, and hard-hitting truth.        

In this episode of "Normal World," Dave Landau, 1/4 Black Garrett, and Angela talk travel horror stories, busted planes, and bad airport experiences that spiral into a story involving a bar owner with a sex dungeon and a murder-for-hire plot. They revisit Hunter S. Thompson's intense daily routine, alleged government ties, and conspiracy rumors surrounding Bohemian Grove. Discussion moves to the Lake Berryessa “glory hole” spillway, where drone footage and local interviews prompt a long riff on engineering, euphemisms, and tourist behavior. Soda politics come up as RFK Jr. pushes to remove sugary drinks from SNAP and some influencers push back — raising eyebrows about who's really backing Big Soda. They react to Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett's viral “Hot Wheels” nickname for Governor Greg Abbott (R), question her denial, and compare it to Tracy Morgan's style of delivery. A quick sidebar on old-school loud music habits leads to tinnitus jokes and stories about misleading organ donor expectations. The episode wraps with 23andMe's downfall, the risks of DNA sales in bankruptcy, and fake-sounding testing services. Sponsors  Lumen: Head to http://lumen.me/NORMAL for 20% off your purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Herold welcomes election integrity warrior Leah Hoopes for a fiery segment breaking down the stunning Democrat win in Pennsylvania's deep-red 36th district, and why blaming voters misses the bigger picture. Leah pulls no punches in her takedown of Scott Pressler's voter reg strategy, the Republican establishment, and the tech-driven fraud machine corrupting elections nationwide. Jon follows up with sharp analysis on Trump's latest EO, the U.S. bid to control Ukraine's resources, the court system's foreign entanglements, RFK Jr.'s clash with Big Soda, and much more.     

Investigative reporter and podcast host Nick Sortor reported on his Twitter page that the company "Influenceable" is paying MAGA influencers to support Big Soda. Sortor says he became suspicious when popular Trump-supporting pages like Clown World, Eric Daugherty, Not Jerome Powell and Ian Miles Cheong all posted remarkably similar tweets, each decrying the idea that SNAP (food stamps) recipients would be barred from using their benefits to purchase soda products. Jimmy and Americans' Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Sortor's exposé and why prominent figures online should always disclose if they are being paid to promote a certain product or viewpoint.  Plus segments on Bill Maher's recent realization that the Democratic Party is cooked and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's tone-deaf comments on Social Security. Also featuring Stef Zamorano!

Last week, MAGA influencers got busted selling out the Make America Healthy Again agenda for a quick check and shilling for Big Soda brands. The reaction to this information has a lot to teach us about media literacy, particularly in the political space. Join my community: https://hannahcox.substack.com/ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DKsJYYEQi9aQX2ew1Dm7J?si=f3d4c0f1ea0c412b Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-based-politics-show/id1535704082   Follow me! Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahDCox TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahdcox Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahdanielle_cox6/reels/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hannahdaniellecox7/   Work with me: https://athens-media.com/

The American diet is awash in junk food. More than half the calories Americans eat come from processed food and drink. Three decades ago, with obesity on the rise, the food industry funded scientists to conclude that exercise was the answer, rather than taxing soda and reining in the marketing of processed food. Anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh weighs in on Big Soda's influence on science — at universities, through front groups — and the ways that companies like Coca-Cola influenced public health in the U.S. and in China, one of the largest markets for processed food in the world. Resources: Susan Greenhalgh, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola University of Chicago Press, 2024 Photo credit: Mike Mozart The post How Big Soda Shaped the Science of Exercise appeared first on KPFA.

Last week, MAGA influencers got busted selling out the Make America Healthy Again agenda for a quick check and shilling for Big Soda brands. The reaction to this information has a lot to teach us about media literacy, particularly in the political space. Join my community: https://hannahcox.substack.com/ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DKsJYYEQi9aQX2ew1Dm7J?si=f3d4c0f1ea0c412b Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-based-politics-show/id1535704082   Follow me! Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahDCox TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahdcox Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahdanielle_cox6/reels/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hannahdaniellecox7/   Work with me: https://athens-media.com/

Nick Sortor, An independent journalist uncovering the full story through in-depth, on-the-scene reporting. Big Soda's efforts to keep SNAP benefits eligible for soda purchases, and their push to use influencers to push back against MAHA.

In Episode 72 of The Kershner Files, Dave provides updates for PMs, Survival Realty, and Gun Shows. After the assorted updates, he discusses several topics starting with sketchy PR firms paying influencers on behalf of ‘big soda' firms to rail against the potential banning of soda purchases using the SNAP/EBT/Food Stamp programs. From there, Dave dons his tinfoil hat to discuss the WEF prediction and game planning of a cyber pandemic which they claim is inevitable. Wait a minute, didn't they predict something as inevitable and game planned for something else n 2019?? Dave closes the show discussing the upcoming HAM/Amateur Radio convention in Dayton, Ohio in May and the costs associated with building a bunker. Articles/topics discussed: Spot Prices for Gold (Au) and Silver (Ag) - from the davidjkershner.com website Survival Realty - featured properties and new listings State-by-State Gun Shows - from the davidjkershner.com website Hamvention 2025 - Dayton, Ohio May 16-18 2025 This is How Much it Actually Costs to Build a Bunker by Matt Wright from Ask a Prepper Support Dave by visiting his Etsy shop at DesignsbyDandTStore Available for Purchase - Fiction: When Rome Stumbles | Hannibal is at the Gates | By the Dawn's Early Light | Colder Weather | A Time for Reckoning (paperback versions) | Fiction Series (paperback) | Fiction Series (audio) Available for Purchase - Non-Fiction: Preparing to Prepare (electronic/paperback) | Home Remedies (electronic/paperback) | Just a Small Gathering (paperback) | Just a Small Gathering (electronic)

Controversy over the “accidental” invitation of a journalist to a secret group chat between White House officials about military action against Yemen appears to be an attack by the intelligence community on President Trump and his team.5) The intelligence community goes to war with the White House; 4) UAE tries to torpedo Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza; 3) Big Soda buys off MAGA influencers; 2) 23andMe files for bankruptcy, putting ownership of millions of users' DNA in question; 1) UK betting site gives Donald Trump 5-1 odds of winning a third term as president.FOLLOW US!X: @WatchSkyWatchTV | @Five_In_TenYouTube: @SkyWatchTelevision | @SimplyHIS | @FiveInTenRumble: @SkyWatchTVFacebook: @SkyWatchTV | @SimplyHIS | @EdensEssentialsInstagram: @SkyWatchTV | @SimplyHisShow | @EdensEssentialsUSATikTok: @SkyWatchTV | @SimplyHisShow | @EdensEssentialsSkyWatchTV.com | SkyWatchTVStore.com | EdensEssentials.com | WhisperingPoniesRanch.com

Is MAHA being invaded? X users noticed a strange pattern of MAGA influencer accounts posting near-identical oppositions to the removal of sugary soda drinks from the SNAP program. Journalist Nick Sortor alleges the campaign was funded by Big Soda organizations in an attempt to subvert the MAHA movement via a secretive agency called Influenceable. Though it was likely a legitimate sponsorship, the posts did not include FTC disclosures and misleadingly excluded any indications that they were paid promotions. “I strongly lean libertarian and don't care what choices people make – UNLESS they impact others,” writes attorney Tom Renz. “We pay for SNAP and if you are on SNAP you may well also be on Medicaid. I don't want to pay for unhealthy food and then have to turn around and pay for your healthcare because you ate it.” Tom Renz is an attorney from Ohio dedicated to fighting corruption and defending freedom. Find more at https://tomrenz.com and follow him at https://x.com/RenzTom Dr. Randy Bock is a physician at Regeneris Elite Men's Health Clinic with over 30 years in primary care. He pioneered a sobriety-based narcotic-detox program in 2008 and authored Overturning Zika. His forthcoming book is titled Withdraw to Freedom. Find more at https://randybock.com and https://x.com/DrRandallBock 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 Find out more about the brands that make this show possible and get special discounts on Dr. Drew's favorite products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors  • FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at https://drdrew.com/fatty15 • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 Portions of this program may examine countervailing views on important medical issues. Always consult your physician before making any decisions about your health. 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Democrat congressman accidentally undermines the Democrat case for the Education Department, RFK Jr. takes on Big Soda, and American women give up on marriage. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4biDlri Ep.1699 - - - DailyWire+: We're leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition. Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. Live Free & Smell Fancy with The Candle Club: https://thecandleclub.com/michael - - - Today's Sponsors: Allegiance Flag Supply - Go to https://ShowAllegiance.com and you can save $35 off your complete flag set + free shipping with code KNOWLES Vandy Crisps - Start snacking right. Visit https://vandycrisps.com/discount/knowles today to get 20% off your order. PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion at https://preborn.com/KNOWLES - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3RwKpq6 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3BqZLXA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eEmwyg Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3L273Ek

Stu Burguiere looks at the plot by major soda manufacturers to bribe social media influencers to make a push to allow soft drinks to remain on a list of approved items for food stamp holders. Then, CBN's Dan Andros joins for a look at the latest with Woke Disney. And Stu reacts to the surprising resurgence in Unabomber popularity. TODAY'S SPONSOR:   REAL ESTATE AGENTS I TRUST For more information, please visit http://www.RealEstateAgentsITrust.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Bongino Report: Early Edition, Evita exposes Vanity Fair's ahistorical smear against Puritans and MAGA, FBI agents racing to redact Epstein files, right-wing influencers selling out to Big Soda, and polls revealing men under 25 hate Democrats more than those over 75. Check out our amazing Sponsors - Genucel - Just go to genucel.com/news, and use my code NEWS at checkout for an extra 10% off right now! -Brick House - I've got a 20% discount to get you started. Go to FieldOfGreens.com and use my code EVITA! Donald Trump's America Echoes Our Puritan Past FBI Pushes to Release Epstein Files With Some Details on Victims, Witnesses Left In Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

12 - Is Michelle Obama taking credit for what RFK Jr. is trying to do with our food? Her and Kylie Kelce discussed on the latter's podcast and Dom has a bone to pick. 1205 - Conservative influencers are divided over who is getting money from “Big Soda” for their content. 1210 - Revisionist History: Americans rejected Michelle Obama's food plan. 1215 - 1220 - Clay Travis sat down with President Trump and brought up the Eagles fans booing Santa Claus, and then Trump said he's going to invite the Chiefs to the White House?!? Your calls. 1230 - A hundred dollar reward to people who can identify who is keying Teslas in Bucks County. 1235 - Camden County schools are sending home food with students for Ramadan. This is the right thing to do! But is it a separation of Church and State issue? What if this were the Christian faith? 1240 - 1245 - 1250 - Your calls to wrap the hour. 12 - Is Michelle Obama taking credit for what RFK Jr. is trying to do with our food? Her and Kylie Kelce discussed on the latter's podcast and Dom has a bone to pick. 1205 - Conservative influencers are divided over who is getting money from “Big Soda” for their content. 1210 - Revisionist History: Americans rejected Michelle Obama's food plan. 1220 - Clay Travis sat down with President Trump and brought up the Eagles fans booing Santa Claus, and then Trump said he's going to invite the Chiefs to the White House?!? Your calls. 1230 - A hundred dollar reward to people who can identify who is keying Teslas in Bucks County. 1235 - Camden County schools are sending home food with students for Ramadan. This is the right thing to do! But is it a separation of Church and State issue? What if this were the Christian faith? 1250 - Your calls to wrap the hour.

12 - Is Michelle Obama taking credit for what RFK Jr. is trying to do with our food? Her and Kylie Kelce discussed on the latter's podcast and Dom has a bone to pick. 1205 - Conservative influencers are divided over who is getting money from “Big Soda” for their content. 1210 - Revisionist History: Americans rejected Michelle Obama's food plan. 1220 - Clay Travis sat down with President Trump and brought up the Eagles fans booing Santa Claus, and then Trump said he's going to invite the Chiefs to the White House?!? Your calls. 1230 - A hundred dollar reward to people who can identify who is keying Teslas in Bucks County. 1235 - Camden County schools are sending home food with students for Ramadan. This is the right thing to do! But is it a separation of Church and State issue? What if this were the Christian faith? 1250 - Your calls to wrap the hour. 1 - Meg Brock, investigator for The Daily Wire and local mom, joins us today to discuss her most recent piece regarding Planned Parenthood and their funding, but the odd part is to where it's going. Why isn't DOGE concerned about defunding Planned Parenthood? Is RFK Jr.'s plan on high processed foods the right plan forward? How will it affect SNAP and other food stamp programs? 110 - The Hotline light will not stop flashing and it's driving us crazy! 120 - What is to be done about the vandalism of Teslas? Your calls. 135 - Your calls regarding Teslas and the side question. 150 - Your calls and comments to round out the hour. 2 - What is the rallying cry that will unite Democrats? Apparently to Dom, it's nothing. 205 - Who gets a bigger crowd pop than Trump? Biden wouldn't. Your side question calls. 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 225 - Your side question calls. 235 - Kids under 11 years old are getting some loans from the government! Becky Pringle isn't buying it, and wants the DOE to continue as is. 240 - Your calls 250 - The Lightning Round!

CannCon and Paul Fleuret team up for a fiery Monday breakdown of the latest headlines and comms. They torch the Influenceable pay-to-play scandal where “influencers” got caught pushing Big Soda narratives against Trump's Make America Healthy Again agenda. Then it's on to judicial lunacy, as rogue judges continue to sabotage Trump's executive orders, including deportations of actual criminals, while accepting junkets from anti-Trump donors. The guys also dig into the social media psyops, “rental riots,” and Soros-backed plans to boot Chuck Schumer. Plus, pyramids, Tesla coils, gold paint trolling, and why Ivanka in a gi might just break the internet. This one's loaded.    

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Chris rages against influencers—left and right—ruining society. He exposes MAGA influencers paid by Big Soda to fight RFK Jr.'s SNAP soda ban, calling them worse than prostitutes for peddling lies. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://seesee.podigee.io/s3e16-marion-nestle 38e6d842aa733350f2c53b4b2086dcf5 Why is the fight for better food, at its heart, a fight for social justice? This episode will challenge the way you think about food, from what's on your plate to the powerful forces behind it. Before you take your next bite, listen to this eye-opening conversation with one of the world's most influential voices on food and health policy, Marion Nestle, renowned nutritionist, scientist, activist and award-winning author. Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and a visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. Her groundbreaking work has changed public health policy worldwide and opened our eyes to how food industry marketing uses manipulative and subtle tactics to influence our dietary choices long before we ever set foot in a supermarket. It also exposes the dangers of ultra-processed foods and the major public health problems they cause, such as obesity and diabetes - diseases fuelled not just by what we eat, but how much we eat. In this episode, the bestselling author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health" and "What to Eat", shares her personal journey into food policy advocacy and the social justice victories she has fought for, leading to public awareness and healthier food systems through public policy not only in the US but around the globe. *Marion Nestle is also author of other bestsellers such as Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015); and her latest book Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (October 2022) Blog: https://www.foodpolitics.com Instagram: Marion Nestle (@marionnestle) https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/marion-nestle @marionnestle 3 16 full no Dr. Cecilia Ponce Rivera

Tim, Phil, & Ian are joined by The Native Patriot to discuss the looming government shutdown as Democrats vow to block Trump CR, leaked audio revealing a Democrat activist helping people cheat on air traffic controller exam, Big Soda lobbyists flooding West Virginia in attempt to stop ban on artificial food dyes, and liberals hilariously trying to defeat Nazis by painting swastikas everywhere. Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: The Native Patriot @LaNativePatriot (X) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soda Science takes us deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists shape research to meet industry needs.

Welcome to episode 98 of Growers Daily! We cover:  growing pest free squash, broadforking vs tilling, and value adding ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8   Links from this episode:    Episode with CSA in Germany: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-till-growers-podcast-network/id1441886206?i=1000457101392   ExcludeNet: https://www.berryprotectionsolutions.com/netting   Episode about what tiller does to soil: https://youtu.be/kpuVFYD74pg   Featured MUSIC TODAY “Weather” By Pandaraps, Big Soda, Is Our Children Learning Via https://www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (

Welcome to episode 97 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Burlap for mulch, is farmer Jesse real, and how big to make beds and paths, ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8   Links from this episode:    Living Paths Video: https://youtu.be/wrcMmW4WKF8   Featured MUSIC TODAY “Weather” By Pandaraps, Big Soda, Is Our Children Learning Via https://www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (

  Welcome to episode 96 of Growers Daily! We cover:  how much can you earn in a market garden, FSMA exemptions, and are you ready for march?    ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8   Links from this episode:  Natalie Podcast from Yesterday: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-till-market-garden-podcast/id1441886206?i=1000695562553   Helpful FSMA document about exemptions: https://psdocs.spes.vt.edu/FSMA/PSR_who_is_covered.pdf#:~:text=To%20be%20Qualified%20Exempt%2C%20your%20farm's%20three%2Dyear,be%20directly%20to%20consumers%20and%20'qualified%20end%2Dusers'.   Natalie's Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Natalie-Lounsbury   Featured MUSIC TODAY “Weather” By Pandaraps, Big Soda, Is Our Children Learning Via https://www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (

As you may have heard, some people are upset with Poppi. While the soda brand's Super Bowl ad caused a bit of consternation, we have a different take on it… and that of Liquid Death's controversial TV spot. This episode also features an interview with Luke Montgomery-Smith, the co-founder of Plink, a brand of flavored, electrolyte-infused tablets designed to create effervescent and hydrating beverages. Show notes: 0:25: Chasin' Breakfast. No Love. Boozin' Water? A Wunder-ful Option. Hack Vs. Tip. Sub On A Plane. – Ray is one region away from reaching all four corners of the U.S. in a month's time, and it seems that no one loves February 14. Liquid Death is still pushing people's buttons (how many calls did Fox get after that ad?), and “big influencer vibes” aren't for everyone. Where was Big Soda last Sunday? And, did we miss the signs about Diet Coke? Ray shares a couple egg-celent tips, but realizes he might be a hack host. We also hear about a couple egregious things that happened on Ray and Mike's flight to Miami. 20:05: Interview: Luke Montgomery-Smith, Co-Founder, Plink - Launched in 2022, Plink is a past winner of BevNET's New Beverage Showdown. The brand is sold at GNC stores nationally along with dozens of independent retailers, as well as online via its website and Amazon. In this interview, Luke talks about the evolution of Plink's messaging from one focused on sustainability to that of product attributes, why he describes magnesium as a “game-changer” for the brand and how the company considers merchandising as part of its retail strategy. Brands in this episode: Plink, Liquid Death, Poppi, Red Bull, Glenmorangie, Neau Water, Remedy Organics Tropical Greens Protein, Crafty Counter

Helen De Michiel – A Pioneer in Participatory Media and Community StorytellingIn this episode of Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby, we dive into the fascinating world of participatory media and innovative storytelling with Helen De Michiel—a trailblazing producer, director, writer, and community engagement specialist.Helen shares insights from her decades-long career, starting with her pioneering work in public television on The Independents and Alive TV in the 1980s. As a visionary filmmaker, Helen has always pushed boundaries, blending traditional storytelling with co-creative practices to foster dialogue and create impactful media.Her work is featured in museum collections across the United States and continues to inspire new generations of storytellers.We explore Helen's innovative concept of open space media, which she detailed in her book Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice, co-authored with Patricia Zimmermann. She also reflects on the transformative impact of her episodic documentary projects, Lunch Love Community and Berkeley Vs. Big Soda, which address pressing issues like food justice and public health.In addition to her creative work, Helen discusses her role as an educator at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and how she supports other filmmakers through consulting and coaching.Helen's dedication to sparking dialogue and creating social impact across media and communities is a powerful reminder of the potential of filmmaking to drive meaningful change.Highlights from this episode include:The evolution of participatory media and its impact on storytelling.Helen's journey in co-creating Lunch Love Community and its global influence on food justice.The concept of open space media and its application to modern documentary filmmaking.How Helen mentors filmmakers in refining their creative processes and reaching their distribution goals.Tune in for an inspiring conversation with a true innovator in the world of independent filmmaking. Helen's passion for collaboration, creativity, and community engagement is sure to leave you inspired and ready to take your storytelling to the next level.Links & Resources:Helen De Michiel's website: https://www.thirtyleaves.orgListen now and join the conversation!

Trust in doctors craters in wake of Covid; Mother, don't let your children grow up to be doctors; Does a diagnosis of hiatal hernia require lifelong acid-blockers? If you're reluctant to get a colonoscopy, stool tests and a newly-approved blood test may suffice for prevention; When drugs aren't tolerated, are there natural alternatives for peripheral neuropathy pain? Supplements for insomnia can help—but a comprehensive lifestyle approach is necessary to optimize sleep; The movement to kick Big Soda sponsors out of sport; NFL Kelce brothers sell out to endorse sugary cereal; North Korea's Kim Jong Un is a heart attack waiting to happen.

Doesn't it seem every beverage category is not what it used to be…as consumers are drinking up beverages that have benefits beyond just quenching their thirst. Even the largest (most sacred) packaged beverage categories are no longer safe…as carbonated soft drinks volume have been declining for much of the last decade. Consumers continue to move closer towards this four-way intersection of taste, convenience, nutrition, and functionality. And functional sodas…that often have a focus on adding prebiotics, plant fiber, or botanicals to support gut health, fit right squarely in the middle of that! What has always made this emerging category so intriguing to me stems from the fact that consumers can make a healthier choice without really changing a lot of their typical behavior. That's a slam dunk in my world, but this story isn't only being told by functional soda brands like Olipop and Poppi. In fact, I believe I've found the hidden gem of the entire category. And in the episode, I'll be chatting with the co-founders of Mayawell…Vicente Reyes and Oliver Shuttlesworth. Beyond sharing some founding story details, we discuss the inspiration for the Mayawell product composition and why that differentiation is an important foundational pillar. We also talk frankly about the early ups and downs that startups face when operating within nascent beverage categories. And why marketplace maturity sometimes provides the clarity needed to make bold branding adjustments that bring the entire strategic narrative to life. Moreover, we breakdown the functional soda categorical evolution that now sees Mayawell (and others) taking closer aim at Big Soda. But these are just a few of the fascinating topics within our recent conversation… FOLLOW ME ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YOUTUBE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TWITTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua-schall/support

Imagine having a confrontation with Chick-fil-A that warrants a personal invitation to their HQ. So the journey started for national bestselling author, world famous blogger and accomplished food activist, Vani Hari. In this episode, Alex explores the similarities between Big Soda and the Tobacco Industry, which fast food restaurant is the healthiest option in a pinch, the American breakfast brand you should boycott, and how to know which food ingredients are safe. Follow Vani  @TheFoodbabe on YouTube and Instagram.Visit Vani's Website for her blog, books, recipes and more! Vani's books Feeding You Lies and Food Babe: Family are available for purchase anywhere, and are found under the "Books" tab of her website listed above. Check out Vani's company, Truvani - The #1 plant-based protein powder brand on the market! Real food without any added chemicals, toxins, or devious labels. .Ditch artificial fragrances for your family by switching to Aleavia organic prebiotic body wash and use code ALEX15 for 15% off.Support American farms and shop Good Ranchers and use 15% off with code CLARK. Go to Nimi Skincare and use promo code ALEXCLARK to get 10% off your order..Looking for like-minded friends? Join the Cuteservative Facebook group.Listen at 9 PM PST/ MIDNIGHT EASTERN every Thursday by subscribing to ‘The Spillover' on Apple Podcasts and Spotify ☕️✨Support the show

Big Soda better watch their backs because a new drink in town is gunning for them!  You've seen the colorful cans on store shelves and all over social media . . . Poppi is the prebiotic soda popping off shelves! The drink's Co-Founder, Allison Ellsworth, joins Tyler and Wells to talk about how her health struggles led her to make a gut-healthy drink, what you'll find in a can of Poppi, and the behind-the-scenes stories of their Shark Tank appearance.  Plus, do you have the next million-dollar idea? Allison has advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Bottoms up!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yerrrr, Logan Paul came through to the studio to talk about Dillon Danis's trash talking, Conor McGregor's betting, alien space technology, Prime's massive market share and much much more. ENJOY THIS SURPRISE MONDAY FLAGRANCY 00:00 start 01:28 Home life has been GREAT + Andrew was right 03:13 Logan admits Dillon is a top tier troll 06:25 0 stress between Logan and Nina 09:50 Has Dillon gone too far? 14:42 Stop the beef with Jake + who's better at boxing? 18:50 Logan's message to Jake 19:56 Dillon's nuke pic 23:03 Nina knowing Logan's past work 24:57 WWE respects Logan + why come back to boxing? 26:44 Connor Mcgregor is a flop 28:31 Logan message to Conor McGregor - $2m BET 32:28 How would Logan deal with losing? 33:27 Nina was hilarious on Guy Code 35:16 Logan's alien footage + Sailing on sunrays 45:49 Prime's SECRET ingredient 46:17 Big Soda is coming for Prime 50:07 Prime has no investors 52:06 Genius marketing strategy = being biggest influencers in the world 54:44 Jake was right about Logan bringing Prime to fight 58:31 Dillon Danis constantly lies 59:08 Logan ain't on the juice 01:00:32 Logan's pecs sponsored by Barbie 01:03:25 Oppenheimer was MID + Logan's favourite Nolan films 01:05:43 Logan checks Andrew's haircut 01:12:20 Why bother with going into politics? Motivation now 01:14:38 Logan on art & 99 Originals + car crash entertainment 01:17:46 Media = oversaturation & negativity + dedication to a craft 01:23:26 Why risk the cost of boxing? Logan wants to fight McGregor 01:25:43 JiDion went too far 01:31:37 Press Conference review + Logan crossed a line 01:34:01 Logan apologises to Nikki Danis 01:38:45 Logan Questions Flagrant Viewer's Intelligence 01:40:46 Dillon bodied Logan at Press Conference + Logan just getting started 01:42:28 Logan saving stories only for Joe Rogan 01:44:59 Ever been cancelled? 01:47:29 No-one cares about KSI v Tommy + we love the Furies 01:49:58 Logan addresses "disappointment" when Jake beat Nate

This week, Jud and AJ unravel the recent discoveries of some of the key ingredients for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus and butt heads over whether this is conclusive evidence that aliens exist. They'll explain just how NASA uncovered these secrets within our very solar system and what finding signs of potential alien life could mean for humanity.Additional topics include: The Cassini Spacecraft, Jar Jar Binks, and what Big Soda doesn't want you to know.Click our linktree to support us on all socials!

Dave Colina is the founder and CEO of O2 Hydration, an Inc. 5000 beverage brand and the Official Sports Drink of The CrossFit Games. A former corporate strategist, Dave cut his entrepreneurial teeth while helping open a non-profit charter high school in Columbus, OH. He then left the office life to coach CrossFit and create a healthier hydration drink - eventually launching O2 from the trunk of Ohio's hardest-working Prius in 2014. Dave is a graduate of The Ohio State University, a certified CrossFit coach, Krav Maga black belt, and the marketing mind behind 2020's Best Beverage Marketing Campaign of the Year. He lives in Boulder, CO, and when he's not teaching business classes part-time at CU Boulder he's out riding his Harley and howling at the moon.We get into his journey as an entrepreneur, lessons learned, and the myth of big soda and sports drinks.

With the FTC already investigating the liquor distribution market as well as Big Soda as it tries to enter the beer market, and with the Department of Treasury's TTB undertaking a rulemaking to revamp alcohol competition law, the timing couldn't be better to hear from Harry Schuhmacher on his views on problematic conduct in the alcohol markets.Harry Schuhmacher is Editor & Publisher of Beer Business Daily, Craft Business Daily and Wine & Spirits Daily – all read on every continent except Antarctica. Harry has worked in the beer business for over 30 years in a variety of positions, and has published Beer Business Daily for over twenty years. In addition, he is the producer of the Beer Industry Summit and the Wine & Spirits Summit. He is often quoted as a beer industry expert in national publications such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

You can buy Marion's new book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520343239/?ref=exp_chefaj_dp_vv_d This is her blog: https://www.foodpolitics.com/ You can follow her on Twitter @MarionNestle Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. She is the author of six prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015. She also has written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). Her most recent book, Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, was published in 2018 (and translated into Portuguese in 2019). Her forthcoming book with Kerry Trueman, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, will be published in late September, 2020. From 2008 to 2013, she wrote a monthly Food Matters column for

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fifteen books, several of them prize-winning, most notably Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015. She also has written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). She published Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, in 2018 and a book of short essays with Kerry Trueman, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health in 2020. Her most recent book is a memoir, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (2022). Read her full bio here Food Politics Marion.nestle@nyu.edu More Podcasts on Nutrition: Atzmi: My Body is Not My "Self" Health at All Sizes with Malka Katzenstein Hunger Games: Raising Healthy Eaters

A new year brings with it renewed hope and a chance to really look at things with a fresh perspective. With that being said, join Mike, Anne Marie, and Rory as they discuss some of the biggest headlines to emerge out of 2023's opening week. The team also takes a look at some of the best investing resolutions to help us make the new year more profitable and forget all about the nightmare that was the market in 2022.In this episode, we also:Discuss Airbnb's current legal woes.Take a look at how Bill Ackman is taking on Big Soda,And so much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Krystal and Saagar discuss the multiple days of continuing chaos surrounding the vote for House Speaker, AOC floating a potential compromise between Dems and R's, Trump receiving blowback from the religious right over his Abortion midterm comments, Mass tech layoffs at Amazon and Meta, Jim Cramer changing his mind and warning people about Crypto, the Age of Con Artists like Andrew Tate and George Santos, and Big Soda smearing their opponents as racist.To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Krystal and Saagar discuss the multiple days of continuing chaos surrounding the vote for House Speaker, AOC floating a potential compromise between Dems and R's, Trump receiving blowback from the religious right over his Abortion midterm comments, Mass tech layoffs at Amazon and Meta, Jim Cramer changing his mind and warning people about Crypto, the Age of Con Artists like Andrew Tate and George Santos, and Big Soda smearing their opponents as racist. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl   Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) has taken a minority stake in non-alcoholic beer maker Athletic Brewing Company, following a $50 million investment in the brand. Athletic co-founder Bill Shufelt shares why KDP was the right partner, what the investment will go toward, and how the company is pacing toward the end of 2022.

Pioneer, path breaker, field builder. These are all descriptions that apply to our guest today, Dr. Marion Nestle. Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health emerita at New York University. She has been a major force in food policy for decades, partly because she is a brilliant communicator and a prolific author. Her groundbreaking book, "Food Politics," has been published in several editions. Another book, "Unsavory Truth: How The Food Companies Skew The Science of What We Eat," is a classic. And this just begins the list. But today we're talking about Marion's newest book, which is a memoir called, "Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics". It offers an unprecedented look into the life, the thinking, and the passions of one of the top figures in the field. Interview Summary   You've had an amazing journey to get to where you are. People know a lot about what you've done at the point where you became an academic started publishing, and things started showing up in the field, but an awful lot happened before that that led up to the academic part of your life. I'd like to have you tell us a little bit about that, if you would.   I called the book "Slow Cooked," because it took me forever to develop a career. In looking back on it and in writing this book, I realized that I was a woman of my time. I grew up in the 1950s when expectations for women were extremely low. Women weren't expected to do anything except get married and have children, which I did. I was fulfilling societal expectations. I worked very hard and was pretty unhappy about all of that because doors seemed so closed. I grew up in New York, and my family moved to Los Angeles when I was 12. I went to an academic high school where everybody went to college, but you were not expected to do anything or to use your college education to create a career. You were expected to find a husband, get married, and have children, and that is what I did.   So then what led you from that to the academic world?   Well, I wasn't very good at being a housewife, and I found it hard to be home with young children all the time. I had a lot of growing up to do, and my poor kids and I grew up together. But I stayed home with the children for a couple of years and it was not a happy experience. I think that was the time in my life when I was close to being clinically depressed. I had friends who said, "You have just got to go back to school." Well, I didn't know what else to do. I thought that was probably good advice, I had very good grades as an undergraduate. So, I was able to get into a graduate program and went back to school when my children were six months and two years old and somehow survived that. Looking back on it, I don't know how I did. That was the beginning of a long, slow progress towards a career. I went to graduate school because I wanted to make sure I had a job at the end of it. I trained to be a laboratory technician and got a job when I finished college. But even in graduate school, I didn't take what I was doing very seriously. I wasn't treated as if I was a serious student. I was told that the only reason they were giving me a fellowship was because no men had applied that year. I thought, "Well, nobody's going to take me seriously, I'm not going to take myself seriously either. I'm just going to do this." And at the end of it, I knew I would have a job.   So what happened that got you interested in academic life, and food issues in particular?   The transition was on my first teaching job. I went to Brandeis University as a postdoctoral fellow. By that time I was divorced and remarried. My husband had a job in Boston. I got a job as a postdoctoral fellow with Brandeis. That led to what I call the swimming pool epiphany, which was a realization in a moment that I could not have an academic career as a bench scientist and handle two young children at the same time. There were women who could do that, but I was not one of them. I was a bench scientist, and working in a developmental biology laboratory. My kids had swimming lessons at Brandeis on Saturday morning. I stayed home with them, because my husband had his own job. He was an assistant professor at Harvard, and he had to work on weekends to keep up with his work. One day there was a much longer swimming lesson for some reason, so much longer that I thought, "Well, I'll just go to my lab. And there won't be anybody there, and I might actually be able to get a little work done." I walked into my lab on a Saturday morning and everybody was there, everybody! The lab director, his wife, the lab technician, the graduate students, the other postdocs, everybody was there except me. I didn't even know that people were there on Saturday morning. I thought, "Oh, okay, this is why everybody treats me like I'm not getting any work done." And, "Oh, okay, THIS IS WHY I'm not getting any work done." That was the end of my lab career. I started looking for a teaching job right away. I knew I couldn't do it. So I took a teaching job at Brandeis, and learned how to learn, which was very useful. On my last year at Brandeis, I got handed a nutrition course to teach. As I like to describe it, it was like falling in love and I've never looked back.   That is so interesting. And What happened after Brandeis?   Well, after Brandeis, my husband got a job at UCSF in San Francisco. I went along as an accompanying spouse, not really realizing the terrible political position that I was in - because I had gotten a job because I was my husband's wife. The job seemed fantastic, I was a halftime associate dean for human biology programs, and then the other part of my time I was teaching nutrition to medical students. I was able to keep that going for eight years, until it and the marriage fell apart at the same time. Then I went to public health school, and actually got credentialed in nutrition. I did a master's in public health nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. And then, when the UCSF job ended, I went to Washington for two years with a very fancy title: Senior Nutrition Policy Advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services. There I edited the 1988 Surgeon General's report on nutrition and health.   That was a landmark report. But there's a question I'm dying to ask, what was it about nutrition that made you fall in love with the field?   Oh, it was so much fun! It was so much more fun than molecular biology and cell biology. For one thing, the papers were so much easier to read. When I first started teaching undergraduate nutrition, I could give undergraduate students original research papers in nutrition and they could critically evaluate those papers - almost without knowing very much about science. They could see that the number of study subjects was very small, that the studies weren't very well controlled, that there were all kinds of other factors that could've influenced the outcome of those studies. I thought this is just the best way of teaching undergraduate biology I could think of, because everybody could relate to it in a very personal way. It was really fun to teach. Still is.   You're a very gifted communicator. So I can imagine how you would enjoy teaching. You've had an interesting journey through the nutrition field itself, having started at kind of the basic level, with a biological background, teaching about research papers in the field, and then transitioning to having this major focus on the policy side of things. I'm imagining that time in Washington you just discussed was pretty influential in that. Is that right?   Oh, it certainly was. You know, I took the job because I was told, "If you're interested in nutrition policy, this is the place to be." I was in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which is responsible for a large number of very important public health initiatives. And I thought the Surgeon General's report was really worth two years of my time. I ended up writing most of it, and certainly editing a great deal of it. It was an education in how politics works. I had come from Berkeley, where we didn't really understand the difference between Republicans and Democrats. We thought both of them were mainstream, and didn't really get it. Oh, I learned the difference very quickly. It was an education in how Washington works; what you can say and what you can't say; how you get things done politically; how you try to work across bipartisan lines, but how difficult that can be. Also, I met people in agencies who ended up being extremely helpful in later stages of my career. If I had a question, I knew who to ask. I was on committees, I was just really involved in a great deal of nutrition-policy activities in Washington during that two-year period. It was a very steep learning curve, and one that I consider immensely valuable.   And was it during that period where you came to develop a richer view of the influence of food industry on the way food policy decisions are made?   On the first day of my job in Washington, I had just arrived from California. The director of the office I was in explained that even if the research showed that eating less meat would be better for health, the Surgeon General's report could never say "Eat less meat." Because that was a politically impossible statement. The Department of Agriculture would complain to Congress, and the report would never be able to come out. That was, as I am fond of saying, no paranoid fantasy. It was absolutely true. An enormous part of my job in Washington was to fend off the Department of Agriculture official who was most interested in making sure that the Surgeon General's report did not say one negative word about red meat. And of course, it didn't. It said, "Eat less saturated fat," and you were supposed to know that saturated fat is a euphemism for meat.   The role you played was really phenomenally important, and that document that you worked two years on was really very important at the time. So what did you do after that?   Well, I discovered quite early in my time in Washington DC that I was not suited for a Washington DC career. I tend to be outspoken and say what I think, and that's really not acceptable in those circumstances. I was constantly getting my boss in trouble for things that I said. I discovered quite quickly that in addition to the Republican and Democrat split in Washington, there was a split between people who liked New York better than Washington, and those who liked Washington better than New York. I quickly discovered that going to New York would be going home, in a sense. I started looking for jobs in New York right away. After a year or so, the job chairing the Home Economics Department at NYU came up. I applied for it, and happily got it.   Boy, that term - home economics - really brings you back, doesn't it?   It does, and I thought it was hilarious, because here I was with a degree in molecular biology, and another one in public health nutrition. I was coming to chair a Department of Home Economics. Couldn't believe they still existed. I had been hired to change the department into something more appropriate for the 20th, if not the 21st century. And I didn't realize how hard that was going to be. But it was actually the only job I got, so I was happy to do it. It was in New York; it was in The Village; it was at NYU. Which was, at the time, kind of a third-rate institution, but with a commitment to improve dramatically. Which it did very, very quickly, over the next several years. It was very exciting to be part of that development. And of course, eventually the department shifted from home economics to food studies and nutrition, which is what it is now.   When you bring up home economics, it reminds me of being in high school in South Bend, Indiana, where the girls went to home economics classes and the boys went to shop class and learned to do woodworking and things. What a difference there is today.   I was happy to learn how to cook. I think they should bring cooking back. It's a great thing to know how to do, and it certainly improves the quality of food that you eat at home. That's where I learned to cook - in home economics, in junior high school. But the home economics department that I inherited had 25 different home economics programs run by five faculty. It was so absolutely amazing, and there was much work to be done to kind of clean up some of that. Fortunately, I had a lot of administrative help, because the university was improving rapidly, and it wanted that department to improve too.   You're so right about cooking and how important the skill it is. I do a lot more cooking these days than I do woodworking or using a drill press. I wish I could have gone with the girls into that home economics class back then.   Well, I wish I could've gone to the shop, I would've loved to know how to fix cars.   Ahh, there you go. So at NYU, you created, I think, what was the first university program in food studies, is that right?   The first one called "Food Studies." There was a program at Boston University in gastronomy that had been kicked off by Julia Child and Jacque Pepin, but I knew that gastronomy would not work at a rapidly-improving university that took its academics very seriously. But there were, at NYU, a great many programs with "Studies" in their title. And I thought if we had food studies, we could get away with it. And we did. We were very, very fortunate in being able to do that, because a program in hotel management that the department ran was being taken away from us and transferred into another school. And it was an extremely lucrative program, and everybody felt very sorry for losing the income from that program. And so, when we came up with the idea of food studies, once people got over the initial question, "What's that?" And we were able to explain to them that food is a multi-trillion-dollar-a-year industry; the major public health problems in the world are connected to food; agriculture is connected to food; climate change is connected to food - in fact, practically any problem you can think of is connected to food in some way. Then we were permitted to go ahead and do that. We were very, very fortunate in creating a new field, because the "New York Times" wrote about the program the week after New York State approved it. The most amazing thing happened! We had people in our offices that afternoon holding up copies of the clipping and saying, "I've waited all my life for this program." In a sense, we created the program that many of us wish we could've taken when we went to school, because it's a program about food and culture. It now has agricultural components in it, although it didn't at the beginning, but it does now. It's kind of food and everything. Our students love it, they all come into the program wanting to change the world through food, and I'm greatly in favor of encouraging them to try to make the world better through food. I think it's a great way to do it.   I found the same thing in my teaching. The students are so keen on these issues, they get more sophisticated and knowledgeable every year. Interest in food and climate change, like you said, is just booming. And boy, it's really heartening to know that there are so many young people interested in taking on this issue. And thanks to you and others who started those early programs that really paved the path for everything that exists today. Let me ask you about your book "Food Politics", which is really a classic. What inspired you to write that?   I had gone to a meeting at the National Cancer Institute in the early 1990s, and it was about behavioral causes of cancer, mostly cigarettes. This was my first meeting with the main anti-smoking physicians and scientists who were taking extremely activist positions against smoking. They did slideshows, and the slides showed cigarette-company marketing in remote areas of the world: the jungles of Africa, and the high Himalayan mountains. One of the presentations was about marketing to children, and showed pictures of the Joe Camel ad everyplace where kids hang out. I was kind of stunned by it. Not because I didn't know that cigarette companies marketed everywhere, and marketed to children. I did know those things, but I had never paid any attention to it. I had never systematically thought about it. Cigarette advertisements and advertising was so much a part of the landscape at that time that it was unnoticeable. It just kind of disappeared into the woodwork. I walked out of those presentations thinking, "We should be doing this for Coca-Cola!" We nutritionists should be looking at the companies that are marketing products that are not particularly healthful, and looking at how they're doing it. So, I started paying attention. I started looking at food-industry marketing, fast-food marketing, soda marketing everyplace I went. And I started writing articles about it. In the late 1990s, I had a sabbatical coming up, I needed a sabbatical project, and by that time I had figured out that NYU valued books. I had been trained in molecular biology, where the only thing that's valued is original research in very prestigious journals. But NYU values books, it's very humanities-based. So, I thought I could take those articles and put them together into a book. That's where "Food Politics" came about. It was a little bit more complicated than that, but that was basically the origin of "Food Politics".   It is one amazing book, and it had so much influence on generations of students, and researchers, and advocates. And I thank you for writing it. It really has had a big impact.   Well, thank you for that. I have to say, I thought I was just stating the obvious.   Well, obvious to you, maybe, because you had the insight to look into these things before other people did. You really were a pioneer there. A lot of people believe that the job of an academic is to do their research, do their scholarly work, do their teaching, and then that's it. Not to go out and try to change the way the public thinks about things, talk to the press, try to change policies, and do things like that. The thought is, once you stray into that territory, you're biased toward a certain point of view and you lose your objectivity as a scientist. Now, I certainly don't believe that's the case, and boy, if anybody epitomizes that sort of philosophy, it's you. How did you sort that through in those early days, as your work was moving into the advocacy arena?   Well, I think there were two things that happened. One was that I went into a department that did not have laboratories. So laboratory science was out of the question. I had to find something to do as an academic where I could publish in scholarly journals. And yet, I wasn't doing original kinds of research, so I had to solve that problem. But the other was the miracle of NYU: they hired me as a full professor with tenure. I had tenure! I could do anything I wanted without fear of reprisals, or without fear of being fired because I was saying something that would offend someone. I have to say, never in my 30 years at NYU did anybody ever suggest that I keep my mouth shut. So it was absolutely the right place for me, and, I guess, the right time. But I had, I guess, they are biases. I had them for the beginning. I think it would be better if people ate more healthfully. I think it would be better if we had a food system that was better for climate change. I think it would be better if people ate diets that reduced hunger, and reduced their risk of chronic disease. I think those are values that are really important. To be able to do work that promotes those values made perfect sense to me. You know, I realize that I'm looked at as incredibly biased. I never get appointed to federal committees, and I have not been invited to the forthcoming White House conference, because I'm considered much too controversial. I've always found it ironic that people who work for food companies or who think that food-company marketing is perfectly appropriate are not considered biased. That's the world we live in.   You know, it's interesting how the academic world construes the concept of impact, and journal articles, and how many times people cite your articles. The outside world might look in on that definition of impact and just think it's ludicrous. You think of impact in a different way, and I do as well. If you're able to harness the work that occurs in the academic world in order to create the kind of social changes that you're talking about you really are kind of maximizing the potential of what exists inside the academic world. Do you agree with that?   Oh, absolutely, it's publish or perish, and I quickly discovered that food studies was a wonderful umbrella for the kind of work that I wanted to do. And it valued books, it values articles, opinion pieces. I mean, the way I describe my work is I write heavily-footnoted editorials. These're opinion pieces that're backed up by large amounts of science. I think that's a valuable contribution. I'm not able to measure the kind of impact that I have. I have no idea what it is, and I don't know how to measure it. But I'm doing the kind of work that feels good to me. I'm doing work that I feel good about and I feel is worthwhile. I hope that other people will pick it up, and that students will follow in footsteps. And one of the reasons for writing the memoir was to encourage students, no matter what field they're in, to get some idea that they can do these kinds of things, it's okay. You can get paid for it!   That's not to mention changing public opinion or putting pressure on political leaders to do things outside of industry influence, and things. You know, it reminds me of an op-ed you and I wrote together in the "New York Times" some years ago, on the World Health Organization and the stance it was taking on sugar. Those things need to be made public, people need to know about those. And sometimes academics are in a pretty good position to highlight some of those really important issues.   Oh, absolutely, and all of that research skill that we have, all of those references and citations give a credibility to the kind of work that we do that is pretty unimpeachable. You know, I'm often attacked for my opinions. But never on the research that backs them up, which is kind of interesting. You may not like what I say, but I've got evidence to back it up.   Yes! Speaking of attacks, over the years, I've had so many of these sort of things. Some really nasty and threatening and some a little more humorous. I remember somebody once sent me a letter that said they wished a pox on my house. I wasn't sure what I was to do with that. Like, I mean, should I go to Home Depot and buy a pox detector? I didn't really know what to do. Heck, you must've had a ton of that kind of stuff. Has that ever bothered you?   Well, you would be amazed at how little of it I've gotten. I mean, there was one right at the beginning when "Food Politics" came out, there were a lot of attacks. "Doesn't she know anything about personal responsibility," and "Who is she to tell people what to eat," and that kind of thing. And then the famous letter from a lawyer saying I maligned sugar by saying that soft drinks contain sugar, when I, of all people, should've known that they don't contain sugar, they contain high-fructose corn syrup. Which I thought was hilariously funny, because high-fructose corn syrup is a form of sugar. But nothing ever came of it. I've heard remarkably little overt criticism or that kind of thing. What I have heard from people is I talked to one person who said he was hired by a soda company to track every single thing I was writing and then develop positions that the soda industry could use to refute what I had said. But I didn't know anything about that until that confession later on. I was kind of amazed. He got paid to do that! Yeah, I thought that was pretty good.   That's so interesting, so you're creating jobs. Back to that time you were in government, working on the Surgeon General's report, you were noting a lot of influence by the food industry on nutrition guidelines, nutrition policies, etc. If we fast-forward to today, do you think nutrition guidelines, nutrition policies, are less influenced by the food industry?   Absolutely not. Of course they're still influenced. You can look at it in the dietary guidelines. They still talk about salt, sugar, and fat. They don't talk about the foods that those substances come from. They're still very cautious about advising less of any particular agricultural product, because the pushback is enormous. The meat industry is enormously influential over government policy. I mean, we have government agencies that are captured by corporations. We see this in many, many fields, but it's certainly true in food. Everybody is worried about the FDA these days because of its cozy relationships with food companies. I just did a blog post this week on user fees. I don't think the FDA should be getting its money for doing inspections of food corporations from the corporations it's inspecting. They can't possibly do that in an independent way. The Department of Agriculture has long been infamous for working for the meat and dairy industries. The food industry likes the perks it gets, doesn't want them changing, and it uses the political system in the way that all corporations use the political system. I think there's more recognition of food-industry influence over what we eat and how we eat, and that's very gratifying.   Are there things you think could be done to lessen this influence, if you could wave the magic wand?   Yes, get rid of Citizens United to start with, so that corporations can't buy elections. I think there's a lot we could do. I think we need an agricultural system that is focused on public health, not on growing commodities that feed animals and fuel automobiles. I think one of the greatest travesties in the food system is that 30 or 40% of United States corn is used to make ethanol. That's just shocking. In a world in which food is a really big issue, we should be growing food for people, not for automobiles, and not nearly as much for animals. You know, and I think there're all kinds of policies that would promote public health in a way that we really need promoting. We need universal school meals; we need a healthcare system, that would be nice; and we need an agricultural and food system that is focused on reducing hunger and reducing chronic disease, particularly obesity-related chronic disease, which the government doesn't want to touch. Because touching it means putting some limits on what food companies can do. I don't think that food companies should be permitted to market junk food, especially to children.     Bio   Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen books, several of them prize-winning, most notably Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015. She also has written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). She published Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, in 2018.  Her most recent book, with Kerry Trueman, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, was published in September 2020.  Her forthcoming book with University of California Press is a memoir to be published in 2022.

Unhinged social liberal/fiscal conservative rant......Great book review!!! "SODA POLITICS" by Marion Nestle.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. Marion is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen books, several of them prize-winning, most notably Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015.  She has also written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). She published Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, in 2018.  Her most recent book, with Kerry Trueman, is Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health (2020).  Her forthcoming book with University of California Press is a memoir to be published in October 2022, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. Marion's books and activities have won many awards and honors, among them four James Beard awards, Bard College's John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service, the Public Health Hero award from the University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley (which also named her Alumni of the Year), and Les Dames d'Escoffier International's Grand Dame award.  She also has been awarded honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky, and the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College. From 2008 to 2013, she wrote a monthly Food Matters column for the San Francisco Chronicle food section. She blogs daily (almost) at www.foodpolitics.com. Her Twitter account, @marionnestle, has been named among the top 10 in health and science by Time Magazine, Science Magazine, and The Guardian, and has more than 140,000 followers.  On this episode of What's Burning, Marion Nestle's chat with Host Mitchell Davis includes conversation around the problem with nutritional research, the need for people to learn to cook, and food as a marker of identity. Follow Marion on both Twitter and Instagram: @marionnestle.

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Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017.  She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was a senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. She is the author of six prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015. She also has written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). She published Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, in 2018 (and its Portuguese translation in 2019).  Her most recent book, with Kerry Trueman, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, was published in September 2020. From 2008 to 2013, she wrote a monthly Food Matters column for the San Francisco Chronicle food section. She blogs daily (almost) at www.foodpolitics.com. Her Twitter account, @marionnestle, has been named among the top 10 in health and science by Time Magazine, Science Magazine, and The Guardian, and has more than 144,000 followers. Marion's Books https://www.foodpolitics.com/books/ Connect with Marion Website https://www.foodpolitics.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marion.nestle Twitter https://twitter.com/marionnestle?s=20 In Today's episode, we have Marion Nestle a Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley.  She is the author of six prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health; What to Eat; Why Calories Count: From Science to PoliticsEat, Drink Vote: an illustrated guide to Food Politics Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning); Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. Her most recent book, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, is the topic of Vera's interview today.  Marion has spent most of her professional career as a public health nutritionist and food studies academic. For decades she has been thinking, writing, publishing, and teaching about how politics affects and distorts food systems. The goal of her recent work has been to inspire not only “voting with forks” for healthier and more environmentally sustainable personal diets, but also “voting with votes.” She means we need to engage in politics to advocate for food systems that make better food available and affordable to everyone, that adequately compensate everyone who works to produce, prepare, or serve food, and that deal with food in ways that conserve and sustain the environment.  Marion is a force to be reckoned with in the Nutrition and Food & Public Health World. Our goal is not only to educate you the listener but also our guest on the concept of sugar as a drug and Food Addiction in general. In this episode, Vera respectfully challenges Marion on some of her thoughts about nutrition and we find out if she believes in Food Addiction. They have an enlightening conversation around the food confusion/dogma that exists in the different nutrition camps,  they discuss the calorie conundrum, and Marion shares her personal experiences with the Sugar industry. We want to give a special shout-out to our friend Tony Vassallo for moderating the audience questions after the interview. We hope you enjoy the show! The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.