The World Is Fat: Obesity Now Outweighs Hunger WorldWide

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🗓️ 22 August 2007

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode University of North Carolina Chapel Hill nutrition epidemiologist Barry Popkin discusses the growing problem of obesity, even in developing countries that only recently faced hunger as their primary diet challenge. Popkin is the author of the article The World Is Fat in the September Scientific American. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include: www.nutrans.org; wwwtheskepticsguide.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.5	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there?
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love.
0:28.0	T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:31.7	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting August 22nd. I'm Steve
0:38.4	Mirsky. This week on the podcast. We have a world that is consuming more and more
0:43.8	saturated fat and more high fat meats and dairy products than we ever could have imagined
0:50.6	10 or 20 years ago. That's Barry Popkin, author of the article The World is Fat in the September issue of
0:57.0	Scientific American.
0:58.1	We'll hear from him this week.
0:59.5	Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.
1:02.9	Barry Popkin is a professor of nutrition epidemiology at the University of North Carolina
1:08.1	Chapel Hill, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for
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