How Food Marketing is Making Us Sick and Fat with Dr. Sean Lucan

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

So often doctors tell their patients, just eat less and exercise more. The patient who is overweight is often blamed and called a lazy glutton who doesn’t have enough willpower. Well, willpower is not enough. Patients aren’t simply lacking in self-discipline. They are not weak and lazy. Most of them are biologically addicted to sugar, and it’s no wonder! Willpower is not enough to stand up to easy, cheap, convenient food. We need more than willpower. We need solutions. My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is Dr. Sean Lucan, a practicing family physician in the Bronx treating children and adults. He is an award-winning NIH-funded investigator who has published numerous articles on food-related issues. Dr. Lucan and I talk about food environments—essentially how our surroundings dictate our food choices, and how OSBs (other storefront businesses, places like gyms, laundromats, the barbershop, etc…) are becoming a huge source of providing junk to both children and adults. It all comes down to this: grazing vs. grocery environments. We also talk about food and beverage marketing to youth, and Dr. Lucan’s campaign to protect youth from dangerous marketing which led to a ban on alcohol advertising. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heim and that's pharmacy FAR MACEY,
0:09.6	a place for conversations that matter. Today we have a great conversation that really matters
0:14.4	about food, the food environment, the politics of food, the science about food is medicine,
0:19.3	and lots more with our guest Dr. Sean Lukhan. Now he's a practicing family physician in the Bronx.
0:24.6	He treats kids and adults. He's an award-winning national Institute of Health funded investigator
0:29.9	who's published numerous articles on food related issues. He's co-authored one textbook on
0:35.5	nutrition and another on stuff that I don't really like, which is biostatistics and epidemiology is
0:40.7	okay, preventive medicine and public health. Now he earned his MD and MPH, his masters in public health,
0:46.0	at Yale before completing residency in family and community medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:52.6	After residency, he completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical
0:57.2	Scholars Program, which is a big deal, where he enters masters in health policy research. He's
1:02.5	currently a fellow at the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine,
1:06.8	and that is a big deal, guys. The National Academy of Medicine is the epi, center, and the epitome of
1:12.7	the best in science and medicine, and you only get in if you know what you're doing. Dr. Lukhan's
1:17.3	research focuses on how different aspects of urban food environments can influence what people
1:25.3	eat and what the implications are for obesity and chronic diseases, particularly in low-income
1:31.2	and minority communities, which unfortunately are really targeted by the food industry. And some of
1:36.0	your work was fascinating. We want to get into that about how deliberate targeting is made to
1:41.6	low-income minority groups, even when they're not the highest volume, they're targeting them. Another
1:47.2	focus of his work is the critical examination of the clinical guidance and public health initiatives
1:52.4	that are related to nutrition. In other words, how do we make science in policy? All right, welcome,
1:58.6	Dr. Lukhan. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Thanks for the intro. Okay, so you're a family
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