American Journal Of Public Health Podcast

The pandemic has masked for now two years the epidemics that were on-going in the years prior. One of them is the obesity epidemic. We were reaching 40% of obesity among US adults before COVID-19, 19% of childhood obesity. With my two guests, Marion Nestle (New York University) and Ben Chrisinger (Oxford University) we discuss the role of poverty, soda, and, particularly, ultra-processed food in fueling the obesity epidemic. Also available on youtube https://am.ajph.link/VIDEO_December21