Julia Belluz
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540 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
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Now, the way I think about it is, you know, you had the new nutrition guidelines come out, which had this great message, eat real food, right?
But no one is doing anything to make it easier for the people who actually really struggle to afford and access real food to eat that food, right?
It's like there's something like 3 million fewer people on SNAP.
The administration has made it more and more difficult for people to access.
And there were programs to make local and fresh produce available to schools canteens, available for school lunches.
And those have been cut.
And then there's a lot of like tweaking at the edges of, you know, swap out high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar or focusing on certain food additives.
And there's such marginal problems in the greater system.
If you really want to help more Americans eat real food.
You're going to have to do a lot more than that.
And you're going to have to focus on the segments of society that were on food stamps, for example.
So I completely agree.
I think a lot of the rhetoric has been in the right place.
Like this is the first time I've seen at that political level people talking about the food environment and saying these diseases are preventable and they are caused by these environmental factors taking the pressure off individuals.
But then a lot of the solutions that have been proposed have also been focused on individuals like give Americans more wearable devices and continuous glucose monitors.
It's not the intensity of the intervention that I think we actually need.
Three books that really shaped my thinking as I was writing my book.
One was Behave by Robert Sapolsky.
He wrote another book, Determined, about basically it's an argument against free will.
But he comes at this, I think, from a really interesting and important angle.
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