Practical Yolks

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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How should we understand the evolving nature of U.S. dietary guidelines? Today on The Gist, Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, explains how the committees modify nutritional guidelines. Plus, what can McDonald's learn from Smashburger or Shake Shack? We speak with consultant Barry Klein, the creator of Ronald McDonald. For the Spiel, how Pesca was bit by the radioactive spider. From now until April 6, tweet titles of imaginary movies to @slategist using the hashtag #NotAMovie. Today's sponsor: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive members-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.6	It's Wednesday, March 25th, 2015. From Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca, speaking to you from
0:57.7	my ancestral homeland of ocean side, New York. I've just gotten back from ocean side high school
1:05.8	where I spoke to my former high school. In fact, Aivin was nice enough to invite the students
1:12.0	of my former high school to listen because every once in a while I would just go and speak to my
1:16.1	former high school and the school was unkind and I'm forgiving. It's always a fascinating experience
1:21.8	to go back and to see the four or five teachers that are still there and then to call them Andy
1:27.6	instead of Mr. Morris. This is a great kind of thing if you ever get the chance to do it.
1:32.4	If you're ever asked to go back and do some version of the scared straight program,
1:36.6	don't make the same mistakes. It seems like most of the people there were doing a don't make
1:41.1	the same mistakes as I am speech. I was doing a here's how to become a journalist and podcast or speech,
1:46.7	a technology that didn't exist when I graduated and will probably not exist in anything close to
1:51.7	this form when you graduate. But okay, on the show today I speak about McDonald's in its various
1:59.4	incarnations and I will also play a blast from my past which wasn't high school which was a bit
2:07.2	post high school but still contains the kernel of what you hear today. But now speaking not of
2:13.4	kernel but other fast foods spokes thing clown we go to Ronald McDonald and what can be done to
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