(2011/10/06) You are what and how you eat (Food)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 October 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #535
You are what and how you eat
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Act 1: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 1: Baby Elephant Walk - Lawrence Welk
Act 2: Obesity Rates up 90 percent in 17 States since 1995 - David Pakman Air Date: 7-19-11
Song 2: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths
Act 3: Gordita Supreme Court - Colbert Report
Song 3: Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Act 4: McDonald's Stock Tumbles As Consumers Turn To Food - The Onion
Song 4: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
Act 5: From Kings To The Average Joe: Gout Makes A Comeback - NPR Air Date: 7-29-11
Song 5: Back to one - O.A.R.
Act 6: The Invisible Food Crisis - Slate Magazine
Song 6: Folding chair - Regina Spektor
Act 7: Hog Executed Farmland Style - The Onion
Song 7: Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Act 8: Monsanto - Snarkipedia - Air Date: 6-11-11
Song 8: Planting seeds - Ten Story Relapse
Act 9: Recalling 36 Million Pounds Of Ground Turkey Linked To Salmonella Outbreak - Thom Hartmann Air Date: 8-03-11
Song 9: Don't stop believing - Vitamin String Quartet
Act 10: Watching Fox News is Bad for Your Health - Media Matters Air Date: 9-26-11
Song 10: Held - Smog
Act 11: Legislation criminalizing investigative food Journalism - On the Media
Song 11: Like humans do - David Byrne
Act 12: Suing FDA to stop antibiotics in animal feed - Green News Report
Song 12: Catch my disease - Ben Lee
Act 13: Lobbyists Gets Candy On Food Pyramid - The Onion
Song 13: Baba O'Riley - The Who
Act 14: Is factory farming manufacturing superbugs - and endangering us all? - Johann Hari
Voicemails:
Detailed dissection of food choice arguments - Mara from Pittsburgh
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments wrapping up the show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
New Psychedelic Weight Loss Drug Transforms Food Into Monstrous Hallucinations - The Onion
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| 0:00.0 | Best of the Left podcast with Coups today from The Daily Show, The David Pakman Show, The |
| 0:14.0 | Colbert Report, The Onion Radio News, NPR, Sleep Magazine, Snarkopedia, Tom Hartman |
| 0:19.2 | program, Media Matters on the Media, The Green News Report, and Johan Hari with a bonus |
| 0:24.4 | video clip for Apple iOS and Android app users from The Onion Radio. |
| 0:29.4 | The old favorite is being celebrated today. It is National French Friday. |
| 0:34.4 | Woohoo! National French Friday! |
| 0:36.4 | Time to enjoy some of the 49 pounds we're going for starts for con. We eat every year. |
| 0:42.4 | Of course, that's followed. Tomorrow, of course, with National Slightly Looser than usual bell movement deck. |
| 0:47.4 | So that's the good news. I wonder what the bad news is. |
| 0:52.4 | To new studies show every state but one, Colorado, now have obesity rates over 20%. |
| 0:59.4 | A dozen states, mostly in the South, have even topped 30%. |
| 1:04.4 | I mean, those numbers are scounding. It's just, that's huge. It's a huge signal. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, I don't know. It's a huge signal. That's more of a soft, or a terrific signal. |
| 1:14.4 | I mean, built for comfort signal, not, you know. |
| 1:17.4 | Here's how it's gotten so bad so fast. |
| 1:21.4 | Just 20 years ago, now the single state had an obesity rate above 15%. |
| 1:24.4 | Today, 38 states are above 25%. |
| 1:28.4 | Meaning America's only growth industry is growth. But why? |
| 1:32.4 | You can certainly chalk it up to big portions and a lot of couch potatoes. |
| 1:36.4 | We are eating less nutritious food and more of it. |
| 1:39.4 | That's our fast food industry. |
| 1:40.4 | How about the Baconator double meal at Wendy's that weighs in at 2,530 calories? |
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