288: The huge food issues affecting our health | Mark Bittman, award-winning food journalist

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Mark Bittman: "Now there's this [new] kind of malnutrition, where people are getting too many of the wrong calories and not enough nutrients.” Bittman, an award-winning food journalist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the problems lurking in food you probably don’t know about, plus: *Why your food isn't as nourishing as you think* *Why kids should learn about where their food comes from to stay healthy* *What you can do now to help build a better food system* *How much corn you're really eating without knowing it* *What we can learn from other countries about the value of food* Referenced in the episode: - Bittman's book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk. - Bittman's website. - One of Bittman's favorite food organizations, The Heal Food Alliance. - Another initiative Bittman loves, the Good Food Purchasing Program. - The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) website, where you can buy local food directly from a farmer. - Senator Cory Booker's twitter. - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's twitter. - Senator Elizabeth Warren's twitter. - Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's twitter. Don't forget to use the code MARK300 for $300 off our functional nutrition coaching program, where you'll have access to 19 of the world's top doctors and experts, seven of which are New York Times bestselling authors, like Bittman. These incredible experts will not only give you a rock solid foundation in functional nutrition, but they'll also teach you how to start your own wellness business and be the change you want to see in this world. Learn more by visiting mindbodygreen.com/coaching. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:08.6	Mark Bittman is a prolific bestselling author and award-winning journalist whose latest bestseller
0:14.4	Animal Vegetable Junk, a history of food from sustainable to suicidal, might just be the most
0:21.9	important book of 2021. It's an honor to have him here on the podcast today.
0:26.6	Mark, welcome. Great to be here. I love the book. It's a bold book. It's a dense book,
0:37.2	and given where we are in the world today in 2021, it's a critically important book.
0:43.7	And what I love is you go into great detail on the why, how we got here, the history of the food
0:52.1	system. You have this great line in the book. You say, quote, the food system is complicated. I
0:56.3	couldn't agree more. And so we're all going to start because there's so everyone should pick up
1:01.6	the book because there's so many important facts that we need to get up to speed to answer the
1:07.6	fundamental question of how we got here. Because to know where we want to go, you have to understand
1:11.8	how we got here and address those some of those systemic issues. So could you briefly summarize,
1:19.2	I know this is a challenge. What's wrong? What's wrong with our current food system?
1:26.7	I mean, no. Because I'll miss stuff. And I won't get other stuff right because I'm not the kind of
1:39.7	person who memorizes stuff very well. But what's wrong? I mean, in short, what's wrong? A billion
1:45.9	people on earth are really hungry, even starving. Two billion people have what you call metabolic
1:55.1	syndrome. I call the other kind of malnutrition. That is, there's the kind of malnutrition we've
2:02.0	known for thousands of years, which is not getting enough calories or nutrients. And now there's
2:07.5	this weird kind of micronutrition of malnutrition where people are getting too many of the wrong
2:13.2	calories and not enough nutrients. And that's started in the United States and has been exported
2:20.1	elsewhere. So there's this sort of whole, the leading cause of death in the United States is
2:27.2	chronic illness, the leading cause of chronic illness is dire related and dire related chronic illness
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