Podcasts about sugar-sweetened beverages

Nutritionist Leyla Muedin discusses news from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Take Back Your Health” tour, highlighting hospital commitments to nutrition-driven care, including connecting Florida farms directly to hospital food systems. She reports that CMS issued a quality and safety special alert directing hospitals to align meals with the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, emphasizing whole nutrient-dense foods and adequate protein while reducing ultra-processed foods, sugar-sweetened beverages, refined carbohydrates, and added sugars, and reinforcing Medicare participation requirements such as meeting individual nutrition needs, dietitian oversight, current therapeutic diet manuals, and integrating nutrition into quality improvement. At Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Kennedy and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz met with healthcare leaders; the hospital signed a pledge to partner with Florida producers to improve food quality, remove procurement barriers, and expand medically tailored meals and training. Muedin praises regenerative agriculture and local supply chains and contrasts these efforts with past high-carbohydrate hospital diets.

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at fruit, vegetable, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake among U.S. children. The second report highlights the effectiveness of the original mRNA vaccines in preventing COVID-19 illness among young children. The third report looks at how many young children in the U.S. are getting their COVID-19 vaccines. And the last report looks at how many U.S. teens and adults have gotten, or plan to get, an updated COVID-19 vaccine.

SHOW NOTES Today, Shavonne had a chance to sit down with Chris Palmedo, Clinical Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. His teaching focuses on community health, health communications, and social marketing. His professional experience includes serving as public affairs director for a health foundation and other health-related companies.  We learn more about Dr. Palmedo's research and interesting things he learned, the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages on our bodies, how companies are working to make their food more appealing and easier to access and how we can advocate for healthier decisions among our youth. RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE Follow @cpalmedo on Twitter and LinkedIn Connect with Chris on the CUNY faculty page SPH CUNY Dean's Merit Teaching Award CUNY MS Health Communication Program CREDITS Theme Music

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugar in the American diet and provide no nutritional value. UCSF now only sells zero-calorie beverages or non-sweetened drinks with nutritional value, such as milk and 100% juice in its onsite eateries, including cafeterias, vending machines and retail locations. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 30502]

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugar in the American diet and provide no nutritional value. UCSF now only sells zero-calorie beverages or non-sweetened drinks with nutritional value, such as milk and 100% juice in its onsite eateries, including cafeterias, vending machines and retail locations. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 30502]

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugar in the American diet and provide no nutritional value. UCSF now only sells zero-calorie beverages or non-sweetened drinks with nutritional value, such as milk and 100% juice in its onsite eateries, including cafeterias, vending machines and retail locations. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 30502]

Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single largest source of added sugar in the American diet and provide no nutritional value. UCSF now only sells zero-calorie beverages or non-sweetened drinks with nutritional value, such as milk and 100% juice in its onsite eateries, including cafeterias, vending machines and retail locations. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 30502]