{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffollow-the-data-podcast-dae580b6.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F88-the-politics-of-food-gsXkd9xM","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"88. The Politics of Food","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a383d56f-1f03-4ba0-9bab-1a2c95464507/42262f68-7366-4f62-8a8d-0e0aa3783d7e/followthedata-coverart-bp.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":" The COVID-19 pandemic has changed virtually everything about the way we live – including how we eat. \n\nThe pandemic has drastically increased the number of people around the world who are food insecure, while obesity and other diet-related conditions like diabetes and hypertension increase the risk of hospitalization and severe illness from COVID-19. \n\nImproving the quality of our diets and building resilient food systems is critical to public health – which is why Bloomberg Philanthropies is investing another $250 million over the next five years in order to accelerate progress toward creating healthier food environments globally. \n\nOn this episode, Dr. Neena Prasad, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies’ food policy program, sits down with Dr. Marion Nestle - the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, and a Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She recently wrote Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know About the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, a series of essays around food politics. \n\nNeena and Marion join the podcast this World Food Day to discuss why food is political; the connection between hunger, obesity, and climate change; and how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need - and opportunities - to create a healthier and more socially just food system. This is the first episode in a mini-series around food policy. \n\nTo learn more about Marion Nestle’s work, you can read her blog here: http://foodpolitics.com/\n\nYou can buy her book, Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know About the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health, here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343238/lets-ask-marion"}