516 - Operation Good Food and Beverages: A Youth-Led Movement to Reverse Racialized Marketing of Foods to Black Americans
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Unhealthy, fast, and cheap foods are often marketed to Black Americans who suffer from higher rates of obesity and other non-communicable health problems. Dr. Shiriki Kumanyika, a research professor at Drexel University and the founder of the Council of Black Health, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about Operation Good Food and Beverages, a project supported by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, which advocates for better food policies and encourages youth to embrace healthy eating as a radical act. Learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.0 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues. |
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| 0:42.7 | Hi, this is Lindsay Smith-Rogers public health on call, and today I talk with Dr. Shariki Kumuniga, a research professor at Drexel University, and the founder of the Council |
| 0:48.3 | of Black Health. |
| 0:50.0 | The council, along with the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, are supporters of a new campaign that aims to reverse racialized marketing of foods to black Americans and encourage use to embrace healthy eating as a radical act. |
| 1:03.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:05.6 | Dr. Shariki Kumanjika, thank you so much for joining us on Public Health on Call. |
| 1:10.9 | Operation Good Food and Beverage is a campaign and advocacy movement by and for black |
| 1:16.4 | youth who want to reclaim healthy food as part of black lives. |
| 1:20.8 | So let's first start off by talking about what's the problem here? |
| 1:24.5 | You know, you've mentioned obesity rates and food marketing on the website. |
| 1:28.7 | Can you talk a little bit more about that? |
| 1:31.3 | Sure, and I'm pleased to be here. |
| 1:33.6 | One way to put it is that food marketing is actually one of the biggest health risk factors that we have. |
| 1:39.6 | The obesity epidemic seems not to be abating, and overconsumption of unhealthy foods is a part of that. |
| 1:48.4 | Two out of five American adults with a classification of obesity, close to 50% in the black |
| 1:56.3 | population. And with children, it's like one in every five in general, and then in the black population, it's about one and every four. So this is a big problem. And the diseases that are related to obesity and other aspects of healthy diet, like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes are becoming higher and are higher in the black |
| 2:20.6 | population compared to the general population. Tell me about the role of targeted food marketing |
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