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Despite high demand for nutritious foods, many Americans experience gaps, challenges, and barriers when it comes to access and agency over their nutrition. How can the public and private sector work together to unlock and advance a more inclusive state of nutrition for all? Presented by Danone
Do you know whether eggs are good for you? What about coffee, red wine, or chocolate?
For decades, diet and exercise fads have promised to shrink waistlines, build muscle, detoxify, and so on. But evidence is mounting that there’s no one diet or routine that works for everyone. Researchers are experimenting with AI to determine personalized nutrition algorithms based on an individual’s health, lifestyle, physiology, and immune system. Christie Aschwanden, a...
Federal funds could not be used to pay for sugar-sweetened beverages under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps), if recommendations from the Bipartisan Policy Center are adopted. In its 2018 report, Leading with Nutrition, the center calls for restrictions and incentives that would recast SNAP as a tool for healthy eating. Other...
Start with the right seed, and you can grow healthy, delicious food while protecting the environment and safeguarding nutrient-rich soil. But today, just four industries control 50% of the global seed market, and that concentrated control results in a dramatic loss of quality, taste, and nutrition. Recognizing that the future of food rests with the nature of the seeds, che...
About half the world’s population suffers from some form of malnutrition – 2 billion people are undernourished, 1.4 billion are overweight or obese, and 800 million are hungry – and as climate change advances, the threats will likely worsen. In the US, cutbacks in the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program mean some Americans run out food every month. Lacking the right...
Fresh, nutritional foods are much more than one of life’s greatest pleasures, although they are certainly that. The science of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, cancer and multiple sclerosis, increasingly reveals healthy eating to be a primary determinant of health and healing. Research is bringing new rigor to recommendations that we put more whole grains, nuts,...
The Healthy Hunger-free Kids Act, passed in 2010, was the first major nutrition update to school meals in decades. Public school lunches now offer more vegetables, less sodium, less sugar, and fewer empty calories—a major victory for nutrition advocates in the battle against childhood obesity. But kids miss the empty calorie foods and many schools are finding the programs...
Michelle Obama says play, nutrition, and physical activity aren’t available to every child.
Today’s athletic champions are delivering peak performances that defy well-established limits of age. Olympians are consistently shattering long-standing world records. What is allowing these remarkable advances in superhuman feats? Featuring elite athletes, researchers, doctors, and coaches, explore the technology, nutrition, training, and psychological tools that enable...
Amidst the greatest public health crisis of the last 100 years, another epidemic is marching along a seemingly unavoidable trajectory. Explore Pfizer’s dedication toward meeting this challenge – and its quest to develop novel therapeutics targeting the biology of human metabolism.
Regenerative ocean farming not only delivers nutritious seafood; it can provide dietary supplements for livestock, ingredients for cosmetics, alternatives to plastics, and lots of jobs. It can also improve water quality, restore biodiversity, enhance storm resilience for coastal communities, and may even be a significant carbon sink. Smart public and private support could...
The pathway to health sometimes travels through a physician’s office, but economic stability, the physical environment, access to nutritional foods, adequate schools, and social support may be even more important way stations. These and other social determinants of health need to be considered in an integrated fashion, engaging collaborators across disciplines who have not...
Improved housing offers a tremendous opportunity to boost health. Some of the links between substandard housing and poor health are obvious, if alarming – pests and mold promote asthma, lead poisoning irreversibly damages the brains of developing children, inadequate heating and ventilation increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Less immediately visible is the impact...
Sweetgreen's founder, Nicolas Jammet, talks about how "fast-casual" restaurants can capture a new generation by practicing ethical sourcing and serving nutritious, delicious food. How can national restaurant owners scale the promises of sustainability and the farm-to-table movement as they scale their businesses? Will scaling concepts like these make healthy eating more af...
An entrepreneur talks reseeding forests with drones, and the Editors-in-Chief of the Washington Post and The Guardian explain how their newsrooms are pioneering the future of climate coverage. Nutrition experts serve up the climate potential of healthy food systems, a conservative leader seeks middle ground, and youth activists flip the script on climate doom. Then, a just...
Population growth, shifting agricultural practices, and altered weather patterns are weighing on the food supply, a pressure that will only intensify over the next 30 years, when the planet holds an estimated 10 billion inhabitants. Rising temperatures will reduce crop yield and spawn more pests, higher carbon dioxide levels will lessen the nutritional value of food, and f...
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and his team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. We’ll debunk the most common nutrition myths and offer a science-backed blueprint for the average American to live another 12 quality years. What are the diet and lifestyle habits that keep people spry...