Eating in America Podcast

9:32

A horror story from long ago about industry-funded...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/05/17

Here’s a story that is so scary and sobering that only a science fiction writer could make it up. Only it is not fiction.And while a mere epidemiologist like me could not have conceived this story – it is too outrageous given what we know today – the story does provide us, and by us, I mean scientists including epidemiologists, media, and the public, at least several sobering lessons.I love food history stories. They can be so informative. Here we go.The butter part of this story started maybe

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8:19

Car or bus to get groceries? Easy choice, if it’s...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/05/14

This month Lela Nargi in an article in The Guardian wrote about one of the studies I led that, together, examined, among other things, the use of cars vs. buses vs. walking to shop for healthy food. I told Ms. Nargi that I thought buses were a terrible way to have to go to get groceries, at least compared to going in a car.As part of the access to healthy food research, we surveyed community leaders in the three communities in Rhode Island where the data collection took place.One woman’s response

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8:14

Medicare is going to provide a GLP-1 benefit?

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/05/11

Coming up this week, I’ll share what I found doing a study in Rhode Island on the use of buses vs. cars to access healthy food. If you haven’t had to do it, and I’m glad I have never had to, it might be a little hard to imagine how hard it is to shop for groceries relying on the bus.Medicare says yes to Ozempic and ZepboundBut first, there are a couple of big GLP-1 things to talk about. Beginning July 1, people who have Medicare Part D and qualify medically will be able to get GLP-1s to treat

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5:32

What’s going on with the FDA’s Generally Recognized...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/05/03

Turns out RFK, Jr. could be called today’s James Delaney, the congressman who gave us the Generally Recognized As Safe, or GRAS, system. Kennedy has been voicing many of the exact same nutritional concerns that Delaney expressed – two years before Kennedy was born. And, in the same way that Delaney struggled with the power of what was to become known as the ultraprocessed food industry, Kennedy is struggling today. Because of the influence of Big Food and the lack of will in Congress to properly

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7:28

James Delaney, the original MAHA man

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/30

Guess who said:…the survival of the country, as well as its democracy, depends on the health of its citizens. The shocking number of our young men who cannot meet the … physical requirements of our armed services must make each of us ask the reasons for this reservoir of ill health in the midst of such a varied and abundant food supply.It wasn’t Abe Lincoln with regard to the Union forces or Franklin Roosevelt at the outset of World War II, although it very much applied then. Nor was it Robert F

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5:02

Iran, vaccines, Cuba, now cannabis - what’s the plan,...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/23

Yes, I know it is Eating in America, not “Smoking in America”, but today’s news is important, and I had to cover it, given the conclusion this week of EiA’s four-part series on cannabis. Think of this as a little bonus, since I already wrote this post for the Notes social media-ish stream of Substack. (If you are not familiar with Notes, you can find EiA’s Notes collection on the website EatingInAmerica.co. Many of my Notes extend or synopsize EiA posts and podcasts and there are thousands of

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11:24

Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/21

This week Eating in America has ventured out the kitchen door to the living room to explore something that might be on the coffee table of 44 million Americans in the last month. That is to say, cannabis.Cannabis has become widely legal but also highly potent, and regulations are loose and vary by jurisdiction. Enforcement is sometimes loose. There is increasingly good evidence about the risks of cannabis use while at the same time it has become highly accepted as a mostly safe part of our

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4:42

Smoking office smoked, two new GLP-1 pills, and Big...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.eatinginamerica.coUsually Eating in America is about what we eat and what people like RFK, Jr. are doing or not doing to make it healthy. But EiA is near the end of four-part series on cannabis, something Kennedy and Trump could help make less of a threat to health, and today we touch on another big failure of Kennedy and the current administration, this time with regard to a smokable substance with strongly negative health effects:

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10:30

Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/14

Eating in America is typically about what’s on our plate: what we’re eating. However, in this series we’re examining something that is not on everybody’s plate but was consumed by 44 million Americans in the last month. Cannabis is very much “in the air” these days, so to speak, especially if you live in a state where it is decriminalized and the smell of cannabis is easily found on the streets. Cannabis use is not unrelated to our consumption of food and to the food environment. The pleasure people

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9:14

Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/10

Cannabis was legal in America well into the 20th century and medical cannabis products were manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and widely prescribed and used. Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that this was before modern medicine: before aspirin even.Thirty years after medical cannabis was first re-legalized in California in 1996, what is the role of medical cannabis today?The flip side of cannabis as a medical or mental health treatment is when cannabis use is disruptive, harmful, and

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9:42

Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/04/07

Why, what, and how we eat is all about our neurological reward circuits, the dopamine pathways that control so much of what we do. These are the channels tapped, to our detriment, by the designers of ultraprocessed food. They are also the paths that lead to pleasure when we drink, smoke a cigarette, or eat a weed gummy.In this four-part series I’m going to expand the scope of Eating In America a little bit and look at one of the non-food items consumed by 44 million Americans in the last month:

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7:50

GLP-1s: Why should you care?

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/03/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.eatinginamerica.coYou’ve got a healthy weight, or you are not interested in weight loss, or at least in weight loss using available medical paths like GLP-1s or bariatric surgery – why should you care about GLP-1s?GLP-1s are a factor in the continued fast rise in health care costs in America. If you don’t need them or take them but you have medical insurance or just pay federal taxes, you are likely still affected by the cost and

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16:14

Jerold Mande on the USDA facility closures

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/03/15

With today’s video podcast, you have your full choice: watch, listen, or, as most do, read Eating in America. Anyway you do it, we are glad to have you here.This post and podcast are about what’s in our food and who’s in charge of making it healthy. While RFK, Jr. and his Department of Health and Human Services are getting a lot of attention when it comes to federal action or inaction on making our food healthy, in many ways it’s the USDA, the Department of Agriculture, that’s more in charge of the

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10:17

Medical education nutrition training: RFK, Jr. twists...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/03/08

RFK, Jr. has gone full publicity blitzkrieg about his success enlisting U.S. medical schools to teach more about nutrition. The Health and Human Services Department is selling it as a great victory for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again Movement. However, the omission of a very important item from Kennedy’s proposed nutrition curriculum topics for doctors has hit a very sensitive nerve with me today.First, the background.As Eating in America reported last fall, the Trump administration and the

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11:31

Beef has RFK, Jr. in its corner: but will the cow...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/02/22

Red meat consumption is down, and chicken consumption is up.While the consumption of beef, the most popular red meat, continued to grow in the prosperous years after World War II, it peaked in the 1970s and has rapidly declined since. On the other hand, chicken consumption has been growing steadily since World War II. During the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009, chicken overtook beef as the most consumed animal protein.Shunned by some and loved by others, pork is classified by the USDA as a red meat

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1:26

Obesity: Still an epidemic, but is it growing or...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/02/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.eatinginamerica.coExcess unhealthy weight is a risk factor for serious chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and cancer. A new study reveals trends in obesity among people who are Black, White, and Hispanic. The projected trend for the next ten years, through 2035, does not look good for any of these groups.In 1990, a little less than 20% of American adults had a BMI of 30 or more, which is the

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8:18

GLP-1s: managers tighten the screws and find new ways...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/02/01

GLP-1 coverage shrinks as demand growsAs costs rapidly rose in the last few years due to expanded coverage of GLP-1s like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound, insurers began to respond with medication management programs and restrictions on coverage. Many GLP-1 patients prescribed for obesity or excess unhealthy weight have struggled to maintain coverage, pay increased costs for coverage, or find the money to buy their medicine without insurance help.GLP-1 medications are highly effective for not only

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16:08

Milk: You will find at least 8 interesting or useful...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/01/25

Everyone on Earth has one food in common, milk. We all drank it as our first meal, even if it was just the milk contained in formula.Breast milk is the most perfect food: the ultimate personalized nutrition. I envy all moms and dads who have experienced breast feeding and its joy and love. Of course, breastfeeding is great if it can happen, but, in the interest of inclusivity, I wasn’t breastfed and I turned out fine.Milk has been in the news a lot lately with full fat milk being promoted in the new

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2:51

Will the U.S. Food Pyramid be a monument or a...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/01/20

The long reach of USAID across the globe, saving lives, making friends for America, and elevating this country’s place in the world, ended in 2025. This morning I came across a photo of a food pyramid poster I took at the health headquarters in Nampula Province in Mozambique while I was doing USAID-funded research in 2018 on childhood stunting caused by aflatoxin in mold on staples like maize and cassava.The poster was in Portuguese and focused on a healthy diet for people with diabetes. Nutrition

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17:43

The food pyramid was always a crummy way to depict a...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/01/11

The 2025 Dietary Guidelines are finally here. Revealing them took a lot longer than Bobby Kennedy expected. It turns out that, working in secret, Brooke Rollins’ USDA and RFK Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services went to the trouble of writing a whole new science report to replace the one that didn’t say what they, and their friends in the cattle, pork, and dairy industries, wanted it to say. To create the report, Secretaries Rollins and Kennedy secretly appointed a whole new committee with

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