Eating in America Podcast

4:26

Eating In America: coming next

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/10/04

From stories of food pantries during SNAP cuts, to coffee and the Ngabe people in Panama who pick the beans, to industry funded research like the 1945 margarine experiment on orphans in Chicago, to the role of sailing ships and the military in shaping our current food environment and the role of food on military ships in shaping morale, to Surgeon General candidates who invest in smoking (still an issue!), to GLP-1s, to a much better way to define and understand ultra-processed food, to the

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3:54

Breakfast in America: Froot Loops banned by...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/09/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.eatinginamerica.coA bright ray of hope shone on the breakfast table while visiting friends this morning.Two weeks ago I reviewed Sugar Coated, Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food, Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland’s new telling of the transformation of a 19th century health food, un-sugared granola, into a keystone of the American ultraprocessed food diet. The Kellogg brothers’ of the 1870s, launched

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9:44

Why did Trump and Congress delay the ban on THC...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/09/20

Candy and snacks made with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, are for sale to both adults and kids in America: not in cannabis dispensaries but places like convenience stores. These treats are not regulated. Seventh graders on their way to school can stop and pick up packages of THC edibles made to look like familiar name brand candies. Except these candies can get them high, dangerously high.As I reported in my April series “Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public Health in

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3:48

“Survivor, Surgeon General,” Episode 3, Donald J....

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/09/15

Surgeon General nominee Dr. Nicole Saphier will testify at her Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow. If she is approved as Surgeon General it will represent another major corruption of America’s public health authority.Eating In America previously reported that Saphier owns a supplement company. Her pricey tinctures have unquantified, ultraprocessed ingredients, and the health claims she makes for them are unsupported by science. One of them contains kava root, a supplement that is banned in the

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8:11

Sugar Coated, Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/09/13

Are you one of the 300 million Americans who together spend $23 billion to eat breakfast cereal each year? Is there nostalgia in that bowl or just a pleasant-enough dose of food to push you out the door in the morning?Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland’s new book, Sugar Coated, Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food, is a not-sugar-coated history of the invention and evolution of cereal in America, inspired by and told through an extraordinary collection of Kellogg

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12:49

Dental health today, the role of teeth in winning...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/09/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.eatinginamerica.coHeight equals genetics plus nutrition plus health. George Washington was about 6’-2” tall. Trump claims to be 6’-3”, but his draft card and driver’s license said he was 6’-2”.Average Americans were a little shorter in Washington’s time than they are now, making Washington’s height more impressive. However, average American men were a whopping 5’8”, three inches taller than the average European! Colonial Americans

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15:06

Sugar in the first 1,000 days is strongly linked to...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/08/31

In this post:* New evidence on the worrisome, lifelong health effects of sugar in the first 1,000 days* American infant formula promotes obesity and many other diseases* American formula is primarily added sugar: corn syrup is prominent and even most of the lactose is refined* Do formula makers like corn syrup because it gets infants to drink more?* RFK, Jr. needs to make Big Formula back down to fulfill his goal of reforming formula in any meaningful way* The added sugar Mom eats is “secondhand

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6:54

Why we still don’t have an ultra-processed food...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/08/23

The RFK, Jr. press conference two weeks ago was billed as a “celebration…of landmark actions…The event will highlight…Trump…accomplishments…and announce two major new food policy actions.”This press event billed as announcing major food policy wins contained nothing impressive. One announcement was for a very partial measure to address the Generally Recognized As Safe loophole, and the other item was a non-announcement saying, in effect, that the much anticipated definition of ultra-processed food

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8:43

“Your morale on board is directly tied to food.”

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/08/18

There’s a big food story from the Trump administration this week. It goes right back to the Eating on Board story from a few weeks ago here on Eating In America. I did a podcast and post in conjunction with the Tall Ships that sailed the East Coast in honor of America’s 250th birthday. We talked then about the role of food in keeping up the morale of sailors, and that very topic has exploded with the retreat of the USS Lincoln from the Iran War theater due to the political cost of further deployment

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8:08

Energy drinks + 30 foot cliffs and motorcycles

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/08/09

“It’s scientifically proven to function!” Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen scream repeatedly and absurdly about the energy drink to which their characters have become addicted in an episode of the series Platonic.But is that energy drink scientifically proven to function, and, if so, to do what?Today I look at the place of energy drinks in our food environment, their health risks, and how the Big Tobacco playbook has been used to stop efforts to protect our youth from those risks.Red Bull, Monster Energy,

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22:50

John Snow, the great disease detective, and how, even...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/07/31

Every day, unless we are in very bad circumstances, we drink water. In today’s America we are lucky to have wide accessibility to what we almost always consider safe drinking water, while for much of the world obtaining clean water is often a struggle.Contaminated water is the transmission pathway for many bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases including cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A, norovirus, polio, and more. Vaccines, like the polio vaccine, and public water and sewer systems have

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9:00

Eating on Board: A seafaring celebration of the 250th...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/07/19

Tall ships in Boston and a world of the pastA collection of tall ships have sailed from New Orleans to Boston, the last stop on their US tour celebrating the birth of our nation, 250 years ago. Sixty ships from the U.S., Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America are part of the gathering. The oldest is likely the U.S.S. Constitution, built in 1797 and permanently docked in Boston. Most of the ships involved were built in the 1900s, some as naval training vessels and others for pride and beauty. These

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5:17

Coffee and the Ngäbe indigenous people in the...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/07/15

The most special person I have met recently is Marilyn Monroe. That’s her name as she said it, and she didn’t explain why. She was pretty much the opposite in every way of the Marilyn Monroe of the silver screen.Marilyn was a five-year old Latina niña when she started picking coffee on the finca where her mother worked and lived in the volcanic mountains near Boquete, Panama. As she grew, her employer, the farmer, saw her potential and paid for her school, including university. Marilyn went on to

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8:37

Pesticide makers are having a field day: Trump...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/07/12

The Trump administration is supporting the financial interests of Big Agriculture and pesticide manufacturers like Bayer-Monsanto instead of the health concerns of its Make America Healthy Again constituency. MAHA is mad and sees it as a betrayal of their support for Trump. But all of America should be mad.The big win for Roundup: Trump helps Bayer-Monsanto win at the Supreme CourtTrump fully backed Bayer-Monsanto at the Supreme Court, which ruled a few weeks ago that the Roundup manufacturer was

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5:40

The bite of the Lone Star

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/07/05

The Lone Star Tick, not named after Texas but for the single white spot on its back, has begun moving in to the Lone Star State along with the alpha-gal syndrome it can cause. This dangerous tick might already be in your state.What’s a tick got to do with eating? Lot’s, because it’s bite can cause a meat allergy, the alpha-gal syndrome. And for many victims, alpha-gal creates a dairy allergy as well.Getting a food allergy from a tick bite is strange but very real. Alpha-gal syndrome can cause

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7:45

Refining a highly-refined food definition

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/06/19

This post is in the “totally bonus” category. This short, summarized description of a proposed highly- and ultra-processed food definition is for scientists and policy makers familiar with this important issue as well as anyone with an interest. So if you missed the first version of this piece a couple of days ago, maybe because it was a lot longer, here is a chance to hear the essence of it. And some of the ideas have been revised or clarified since then. If you feel done with HUPF for the moment,

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4:02

A travel tip for when little uninvited friends spoil...

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/06/19

It’s vacation travel season, so I thought I might be helpful sharing a preventative health tip I recently became aware of. It involves eating.A chance encounter with the wrong bacteria or virus can create an unpleasant GI problem even here in America, so I always travel with Pepto-Bismol.But it turns out the pink tablets are good for more than just treating a tummy problem. They can be a very effective preventative.Imodium is always in by toiletry kit as well, just in case things get bad, or I have

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17:01

A simple Highly- and Ultra-Processed Food definition

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/06/17

Please note that a small portion of the text of this podcast is taken from an Eating in America Note, published on EatingInAmerica.co this week.I propose a new, simple definition for highly- and ultra-processed food, the definition of which shouldn’t be, but nonetheless has become, perhaps the most important nutrition issue of 2026. It has been made an issue as a tactic of delay by the Big Food lobby, which will exploit any opening to postpone the possibility of regulation of highly- and

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8:12

Alcohol causes cancer, Mr. President

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/06/14

Trump suppressed a major government-led study on alcohol, health, and risk of death meant to guide the writing of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Although a draft of the report had been released for public comment, this was, nonetheless, a big win for the alcohol industry.This week the scientists who did the research published the results that Trump, Republicans in Congress, and the alcohol industry don’t like. The paper appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Studies on Alcohol and

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10:34

Survivor, Surgeon General: who will be voted off next?

Eating in America Podcast ·

2026/05/26

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, eat your hearts out.In today’s game, three doctors walk into a Fox TV studio for a taping of Survivor, Surgeon General. Two of them work for Fox. Two of them got their medical degrees at schools in the Caribbean. One of them lies about her qualifications. Two of them are selling supplements. One of them isn’t really a doctor and is a recent stockholder in tobacco. Two of them are not completely pro vaccine. Which of these three are qualified to be the U.S. Surgeon General

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