373 - Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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How can we help the planet by rethinking our diets? In a new book, Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?, Dr. Jessica Fanzo, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics points out how our food options are often unhealthy for human bodies—and for the planet. Dr. Fanzo talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about making changes at both policy and individual levels, from the responsible use of genetically modified organisms to redesigning "choice architecture" in grocery stores and restaurants.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, it's the Public Health On Call Book Club. Our topic is dinner and whether it can save the planet. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm speaking to Jess Fanso, a Bloomberg distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins, and an expert |
| 0:58.8 | in food systems about her new book. |
| 1:01.9 | What's that, you ask? |
| 1:03.3 | Did this discussion give me a lot of food for thought? |
| 1:06.6 | It certainly did, and I think it will give you a lot of food for thought too. |
| 1:10.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:12.4 | Jess Fanso, thank you so much for coming to Public Health on call. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm really excited to talk to you about your new book. |
| 1:19.9 | Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? |
| 1:23.5 | So I want to first ask you to talk about one of the challenges today with our food system |
| 1:30.7 | in the world. Yeah, thanks for having me, Josh. I think one of the biggest challenges that we |
| 1:36.6 | face with food systems is that the diets that are being produced by food systems are not |
| 1:43.4 | healthy. So in this podcast is all about public health. |
| 1:47.2 | And one of the biggest concerns we have is that diets are now one of the top risk factors of |
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