849 - Marion Nestle and Food Politics
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
Research has linked America's food system with a host of health problems including obesity and heart disease. Advocate Marion Nestle, a food lover and food advocate, wants to change that. In this episode: how she got interested in the food system, the link between food marketing and diet, her excitement around GLP-1 drugs, and what she'll be watching if RFK Jr. is confirmed as the head of HHS.
Guest:
Marion Nestle is a molecular biologist and public health nutritionist known for her advocacy around a better food system for better health in America.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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The Effects of Food Advertisements on Food Intake and Neural Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Experimental Studies—Advances in Nutrition
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Food Marketing and Labeling—Johns Hopkins Center For a Livable Future
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First randomized, controlled study finds ultraprocessed diet leads to weight gain—NIH Clinical Center
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GLP-1 drug use cuts grocery spending by 6%, study finds—Fooddive
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.u. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:30.7 | Marian Nessel, it is wonderful to have you here on Public Health on Call to talk about food. |
| 0:36.7 | How are you doing today? Just doing fine, thanks. |
| 0:39.8 | You have had an unbelievable career opening Americans' eyes to what's going on with the food system |
| 0:48.0 | and changing what a lot of them put in their mouths. And I just want to start by asking, |
| 0:53.7 | why food? How did you get interested in. And I just want to start by asking, why food? |
| 0:54.5 | How did you get interested in food? |
| 0:56.2 | I just love to eat. |
| 0:58.1 | If the truth be known. |
| 1:00.2 | I have a degree in molecular biology. |
| 1:02.6 | I was a bench scientist in another life. |
| 1:06.1 | I described myself as a lapsed molecular biologist. |
| 1:09.6 | But on my first teaching job, I was teaching in the |
| 1:12.7 | biology department at Brandeis. And they had a rule that you could only teach the same course three |
| 1:18.8 | times. And then you had to do something new. And you had to do whatever the department needed, |
| 1:25.1 | whether you knew anything about it or not. |
| 1:28.6 | It was an interesting philosophy. |
| 1:31.3 | And I had been teaching cell and molecular biology, which is very abstract and not easy |
| 1:37.8 | to teach. |
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