A new study has found that nearly three-quarters of American adults are now obese or overweight, and there’s growing concern — among politicians, scientists and consumers — about one potential culprit: ultraprocessed foods. Guest: Alice Callahan, a nutrition and health reporter for The New York Times, discusses how these foods came to be such a big part of what we eat, and why that’s so hard to change.
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I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily
A new study has found that nearly three quarters of American adults are now obese or overweight.
And there's been growing concern among politicians, scientists and consumers about one potential culprit are ultra processed foods to blame your.
Addiction to sugar and ultra, ultra processed foods.
Ultra processed foods.
Ultra processed foods, ultra processed food.
We are all addicted to eating fast.
Food and ultra processed foods, and that.
Is melting our brains in real time.
Straight up today, my colleague, nutrition writer Alice Callahan, on how these foods came to be such a big part of what we eat and why that's so hard to Change.
It's Friday, December 13th.
Alice Callahan, welcome to the show.
Thank you.
It's so good to be here, Sabrina.
So you cover nutrition for the Times, and you, as I understand, are uniquely qualified to have this conversation about ultra processed foods because you literally have a PhD in nutrition.
I do have a PhD in nutrition.
That's right.
So I started out in academia.
I thought that I would be a nutrition scientist.