Weight Loss: What's Science and What's Pseudoscience?
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.9 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Julia Belluz and scientist Kevin Hall talk to Mark about their new book, Food Intelligence: why there's such a big gap between food science and diet fads, how the effects of our 'food environments' determine how much we eat and how much it changes our biology, and how our public outcry over the unjustness of our food system is apolitical—but is made political.
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