Julia Belluz

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540 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 8 May

Julia Belluz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

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The Ezra Klein Show · GLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness · 8 May 2026 podcast

Another one is Deb Blum's Poison Squad.

And this is like an excellent look through a biography of one of the former chemists at the USDA who,

who did research that helped lead to the establishment of the FDA and a lot of the food regulations and other types of consumer protection laws that we have.

I love that book.

And a third book that I really enjoyed was Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken.

And this is really a polemic and much more than where I ended up coming down in my book.

But I thought that was a really illuminating and fascinating book on ultra processed foods.

Thank you so much.

Plain English with Derek Thompson · Plain English BEST OF: What’s the Matter With America’s Food? · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

Thanks so much for inviting us.

So I went into this area of reporting and researching this book with a personal question.

I was one of the people, like probably many of the listeners, who had struggled with their weight.

And I'd always blame myself.

I would try different diets or exercise programs or whatever the thing was, even supplements when I was a teenager.

And I carried around this feeling when I couldn't lose the weight that somehow I had failed.

And when I started to talk to researchers like Kevin and others who work on sort of understanding this symphony of internal signals that we have that guides our eating behavior, I realized how much of the decisions we make about what we eat are happening beyond our conscious control.

And what I came to appreciate through writing this book and working with Kevin was the extent to which the environment kind of interplays with these internal signals that we have that are guiding our eating behavior.

So whether you're going to eat an avocado and eggs in the morning or just turn to a donut or whatever, these hundreds of decisions we make about what we're going to put in our mouths every day,

There's a lot of evidence that this isn't something we have the control over that we thought we did.

And therefore, yeah, it's not us.

It's the food environment.

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