Julia Belluz
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540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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So they've done things like fresh food markets in every district.
They minimize the size of grocery stores through land use planning since the late 1800s, like using school lunches as a lever to feed children healthfully.
And over time, they've become more and more avant-garde about
what that actually means.
They pull all these different levers.
What we're talking about, I think, is creating this regulatory environment around chronic disease.
Like, how do you protect the public from developing these diseases like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease?
And it seems like impossible now because it does involve these radical changes to the food environment.
But America did this over 100 years ago, right, when we started to protect people against acute food poisoning.
It was just it was Wild West.
They were putting calf brains in milk at this time and putting like brick dust to dye food in a certain way and lead.
That's where the FDA came from.
That's where the meat inspection program of the USDA came from after the publication of Upton Sinclair's book.
But I hear you.
It's going to be very difficult.
I do think the politics are changing.
So we're in a moment where places like California and West Virginia are both looking at doing things like reducing ultra-processed foods in school lunches and banning certain additives.
So really politically distinct places and people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
and Trump and the former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, what they're saying about diet-caused diseases, you can't tell who's saying it anymore.
No, absolutely.
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