America's Diet…and the Environment?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A federal committee on dietary guidelines reports that 65% of American women are overweight or obese along with 70% of men. Its findings on how we got that way — and what should be done — have surprised most nutritional experts and outraged parts of the food industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm a Rominali host of To the Point in Which Way, L.A. |
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| 0:35.1 | America's diet and the environment? |
| 0:40.6 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:44.7 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:47.2 | A crucial federal report on the health of Americans contains unprecedented advice. |
| 0:51.6 | Instead of eating red meat in moderation, we should eat less. The meat industries |
| 0:56.1 | are up in arms, not just about health warnings, but especially the claim that livestock production |
| 1:01.3 | contributes to global warming. And that's not the only surprise from the panel that helps |
| 1:06.0 | determine official dietary guidelines. It says eggs and coffee don't cause heart trouble after all. As special |
| 1:13.7 | interests and politicians take aim at conclusions so different from what's gone before, |
| 1:19.0 | what's the American public to think? Today's talking point. Do for-profit colleges have a future? |
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