Big Food vs. Your Health: The Power Struggle

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

oday, we talk to esteemed food and public health advocate Marion Nestle about the politics of food. No, this has nothing to do with political parties and ballots; it’s about who has the power to decide what goes on your plate. While you may think you’re the one making the decisions, there’s a whole host of hidden influences shaping the food we eat. From government dietary guidelines to nutrition labels and even how supermarkets are set up, we are often the last to be involved in our food choices. Why is nutrition research often driven more by money than health? Who truly controls the U.S. dietary guidelines? How did we contribute to creating the obesity epidemic? And what do Big Food and Big Tobacco have in common? Tune in to find out.

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0:00.0	You know, with the election coming up, I feel like politics is everywhere on TV, social media, even at the dinner table.
0:09.5	Oh, tell me about it, I just want to take a nap and wake up next year. I'm so exhausted.
0:14.4	Well, don't take a nap just yet because there's a whole other type of politics that we haven't covered yet.
0:21.0	No, no more politics.
0:23.2	Just wait, this one is actually really interesting and I think it could really
0:28.3	help us understand what's going on with our food.
0:31.7	What? I don't know about that. on with our food.
0:36.0	What? I don't know about that Eddie. What kind of politics are we talking about? Today we're talking about food politics.
0:39.0	Food politics, you mean like one side of the plate is blueberries and the other side is
0:44.4	strawberries and they're fighting you over the battleground plates?
0:47.0	Oh God, you know, that was like a straight up dad joke.
0:50.8	You do not have to be a dad, to have a diet joke. I believe in you even though you stole my idea.
0:56.7	Guys Eddie is working off on me and it is not the way I want you to rebal on me. Take it back.
1:00.8	But no, that's not the politics of food that we're talking about. The
1:05.0	politics of food is about who is really influencing what ends up on our plates.
1:10.5	Eddie I'm pretty sure that is me, okay?
1:14.4	I'm the one that goes to the grocery store, I choose what I buy, I put it on my plate,
1:17.4	it's me.
1:18.4	Oh, Una, wouldn't it be nice if we were actually in control of what food ends up on our plate.
1:23.8	Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
1:27.0	From nutrition guidelines to food marketing, the decisions behind what we eat are more political
1:32.4	than we realize.
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