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著者： Helena Bottemiller Evich
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 From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, America is in the midst of a food and nutrition policy awakening. Why are diet-related disease rates so high in the U.S.? What are the potential solutions? What does the science say? Award-winning journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich cuts through the noise to help us understand what’s really happening with our food system and our plates.Copyright 2026 Helena Bottemiller Evich アート クッキング 政治・政府 政治学 衛生・健康的な生活 食品・ワイン
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  • What we still don't know about ultra-processed foods with Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall

    What we still don't know about ultra-processed foods with Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall
    2026/03/18
    The American diet has become dominated by ultra-processed foods, but it’s taken a while for scientists to even begin to understand what this really means for our health.One of the researchers at the cutting edge of our nascent understanding is Kevin Hall. A physicist by training, Hall spent 21 years at NIH becoming the country's foremost nutrition scientist before resigning from the agency in 2025.Julia Belluz is an award-winning health journalist and contributing opinion writer at the New York Times who has done some of the best reporting on nutrition and obesity anywhere.Together, they wrote Food Intelligence — an Economist Book of the Year. It's one of the most honest and nuanced books about food and nutrition I've read in a long time, and this conversation reflects that.Highlights:– Kevin's landmark 2019 NIH clinical trial: how it was designed, what it found, and why it was so controversial– Why nutrition science is so underfunded — and how that created a vacuum filled by industry, influencers, and ideology – The MAHA paradox: a movement with the right rhetoric (sometimes) but lacking serious investment in the science to back it up – What the continuous glucose monitor and biohacking craze gets wrong – How food environments (not willpower) drive what we eat, and what changing them would actually require – Kevin's firsthand account of being censored as a government scientist and why he ultimately left NIH after 21 years – What systemic change could actually look like: SNAP reform, marketing restrictions, and making healthy food genuinely competitiveWhere to find Kevin Hall & Julia Belluz:Check out their book Food IntelligenceKevin Hall’s websiteFollow him on InstagramJulia Belluz’s websiteFollow her on InstagramMentioned in this episode:Kevin Hall's 2019 ultra-processed foods clinical trial — Cell MetabolismHow Washington Keeps America Sick and Fat — Helena's 2019 Politico investigation on nutrition research underfundingKevin Hall's departure from NIH — CNNStay in touch:Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.coCheck out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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    51 分
  • FDA's food agenda, one year in with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary

    FDA's food agenda, one year in with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
    2026/03/06

    The FDA is nearly a year into its MAHA era. The rhetoric has been bold — food dyes, ultra-processed foods, infant formula, GRAS reform. But what's actually happened? And what might still be coming? Helena got down to brass tacks with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary during a fireside chat on stage at the National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.

    Commissioner Makary came into this role as a surgical oncologist and researcher who spent decades at Johns Hopkins — and who had already written extensively about food and nutrition before taking the job (unusual for an FDA commissioner).

    In this conversation, they cover a lot of ground: the plan to phase out synthetic food dyes, the coming definition for ultra-processed foods, the overhaul of infant formula standards, GRAS reform, and what front-of-pack labeling might actually look like under this administration.

    Highlights:

    – Makary sees the food side of FDA as one of the biggest opportunities of his tenure; he thinks it's been under-appreciated for years

    – The plan to phase out petroleum-based synthetic food dyes

    – FDA's coming definition for ultra-processed foods, expected by April or May, and how it might factor into labeling

    – Rethinking front-of-pack labeling: why this administration isn't planning to just move forward with the Biden-era proposal

    – Overhauling the infant formula monograph for the first time in decades

    – GRAS reform: where the proposed rule stands and what Makary says about FDA's authority to close the loophole

    – How AI is being used to speed up scientific reviews and help target inspections


    Where to find Commissioner Makary:

    Dr. Makary’s website

    @DrMakaryFDA on X


    Mentioned in this episode:

    Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health by Marty Makary


    Stay in touch:

    Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.

    Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.

    Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.co

    Check out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.


    Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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    39 分
  • Sam Kass on climate change and the Michelle Obama era

    Sam Kass on climate change and the Michelle Obama era
    2026/03/04

    Sam Kass calls RFK Jr. "the greatest threat to public health this country has ever faced."

    He’s not joking. Sam led Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, served as senior policy advisor in the Obama White House, and fought some of the most brutal food policy battles in recent memory. He knows what it takes to enact regulation and how hard industry will fight to protect its interests.

    Hearing MAHA panic about seed oils and food dyes while the administration weakens the FDA and CDC all while championing beef tallow french fries is downright alarming, he says. And that’s before we even get to the fact that the Trump administration is moving backward on responding to the climate crisis, which is the focus of his latest book, The Last Supper.

    Sam doesn’t hold back in this interview.

    Heads up for those with kids: There are some expletives in this conversation.

    Highlights:

    – How Big Potato fought the White House over what counts as a vegetable in school lunch and WIC

    – The reason why Sam's first cookbook didn't include white potatoes

    – The trans fat ban fight

    – How climate change has moved from future threat to present crisis

    – Why seed oils and food dyes are a distraction from what actually matters for public health

    – Fact-checking the narrative that Michelle Obama "caved to industry"

    – Democrats lost the food issue to Republicans — can they get it back?

    Where to find Sam Kass:

    Follow Sam Kass on Instagram

    Check out his book, The Last Supper


    Mentioned in this episode:

    Bold Fork Books

    The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

    Marion Nestle's Food Politics blog

    Fed Up documentary

    COP 21 Paris Climate Agreement

    How I Built This: Spindrift — Bill Creelman


    Stay in touch:

    Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.

    Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.

    Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.co

    Check out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.


    Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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