Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

But I think that price is clearly one tool that the government needs to use to help address healthier food. And it sounds sort of pie in the sky, like this will never happen, but there's now at least a dozen countries around the world that have passed soda taxes.

Yeah. Unfortunately, none of that money is being used, to my knowledge, for subsidizing healthy foods. And so that makes the taxes only regressive in terms of finances for the poor. Although it's progressive for health for the poor, it's progressive for finances. We should use the revenue from those taxes to create incentives and systems for making healthy food less expensive.

Yeah. Unfortunately, none of that money is being used, to my knowledge, for subsidizing healthy foods. And so that makes the taxes only regressive in terms of finances for the poor. Although it's progressive for health for the poor, it's progressive for finances. We should use the revenue from those taxes to create incentives and systems for making healthy food less expensive.

Yeah. Unfortunately, none of that money is being used, to my knowledge, for subsidizing healthy foods. And so that makes the taxes only regressive in terms of finances for the poor. Although it's progressive for health for the poor, it's progressive for finances. We should use the revenue from those taxes to create incentives and systems for making healthy food less expensive.

while helping farmers, right? We don't want to just make the food less expensive by putting farmers out of business. So I think that price is just an absolutely crucial tool. And we've learned from Tobacco, for example, how important price is.

while helping farmers, right? We don't want to just make the food less expensive by putting farmers out of business. So I think that price is just an absolutely crucial tool. And we've learned from Tobacco, for example, how important price is.

while helping farmers, right? We don't want to just make the food less expensive by putting farmers out of business. So I think that price is just an absolutely crucial tool. And we've learned from Tobacco, for example, how important price is.

Yeah, well, there's a lot of challenges in North Korea for sure that maybe food wouldn't be the first thing I'd address, but it would be up there. So I think that there's probably... six or seven categories of policies that I think are really crucial. One is fiscal economic incentives.

Yeah, well, there's a lot of challenges in North Korea for sure that maybe food wouldn't be the first thing I'd address, but it would be up there. So I think that there's probably... six or seven categories of policies that I think are really crucial. One is fiscal economic incentives.

Yeah, well, there's a lot of challenges in North Korea for sure that maybe food wouldn't be the first thing I'd address, but it would be up there. So I think that there's probably... six or seven categories of policies that I think are really crucial. One is fiscal economic incentives.

So like we talked about, direct-to-consumer incentives or taxes, industry incentives, fiscal incentives, give them incentives for marketing and advertising and developing of healthy foods, and give them disincentives for the opposite.

So like we talked about, direct-to-consumer incentives or taxes, industry incentives, fiscal incentives, give them incentives for marketing and advertising and developing of healthy foods, and give them disincentives for the opposite.

So like we talked about, direct-to-consumer incentives or taxes, industry incentives, fiscal incentives, give them incentives for marketing and advertising and developing of healthy foods, and give them disincentives for the opposite.

Yeah, that's actually been proposed in Congress. It hasn't, you know, gained steam or gotten out of committee, but it's proposed to take away the tax breaks that companies now get for marketing junk food, right? Fiscal incentives through SNAP, the food stamps program. Fiscal incentives is one category.

Yeah, that's actually been proposed in Congress. It hasn't, you know, gained steam or gotten out of committee, but it's proposed to take away the tax breaks that companies now get for marketing junk food, right? Fiscal incentives through SNAP, the food stamps program. Fiscal incentives is one category.

Yeah, that's actually been proposed in Congress. It hasn't, you know, gained steam or gotten out of committee, but it's proposed to take away the tax breaks that companies now get for marketing junk food, right? Fiscal incentives through SNAP, the food stamps program. Fiscal incentives is one category.

You know, two other categories are crucial is to change the environments in schools and work sites. They're Kids spend much of their day in schools. Adults spend much of their day at work sites.

You know, two other categories are crucial is to change the environments in schools and work sites. They're Kids spend much of their day in schools. Adults spend much of their day at work sites.

You know, two other categories are crucial is to change the environments in schools and work sites. They're Kids spend much of their day in schools. Adults spend much of their day at work sites.

There's a lot of ways, wellness programming, environmental standards, procurement policies to make schools and work sites, places where you, and hospitals, you know, places where you can only really get healthy food, food that tastes good and is healthy and is good.