America's Health Crisis: How 'Body Positivity' Has Led To Chronic Health Issues

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Tristan Justice, correspondent at The Federalist and author, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how America became so unhealthy. From government subsidies for certain food industries to the hidden ingredients in some of America's favorite snacks, learn why Americans are suffering from chronic health issues and what can be done to change that.

You can find Justice’s book, Fat And Unhappy: How 'Body Positivity' Is Killing us, here.

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0:00.0	With the 2050 Investor Podcast, let's travel to the year 2050. Will we have achieved our goal of
0:06.6	net zero emissions and taken the necessary steps to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius? And if not,
0:13.1	what will a world on the brink of climate collapse due to human activity look like? My name is
0:18.8	Kokuagbubloa, global Global Head of Economics, Cross Asset and Quant
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0:27.5	face the challenges of tomorrow. And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle,
0:50.5	Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's
0:56.0	quest for knowledge. As always, you can email the show at radio at thefederalist.com. Follow us on
1:02.3	X at FDRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the
1:08.9	premium version of our website as well.
1:11.6	Our guest today is Tristan Justice, excellent reporter for the Federalist and author of the new
1:18.0	book, Fat and Unhappy, How Body Positivity is Killing Us and How to Save Yourself.
1:26.3	Tristan, thank you so much for being here on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:32.3	Thank you for having me.
1:33.4	Always fun to be on.
1:34.6	This is your first foray into authorship as it relates to books.
1:40.6	You've written thousands of stories, excellent investigative pieces over your journalism
1:46.2	career, but this is your first book. Let's start there. How does it feel to be a published
1:51.2	author of a book that is doing quite well, as I understand it? Right. Hot off the press. So we were
1:58.6	number five. And we got to number three, number two,
2:01.0	and new releases on nutrition at Amazon. So that was just really exciting to see. But no,
2:06.4	I always had this interest in nutrition, mental health, just health broadly. It was actually one of
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