About this episode

The episode discusses how misinformation from leaders about food and health impacts public trust and well-being.

Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about power by watching what it lies about when the stakes seem small. We start with food and public health because it’s the cleanest example of credibility on the line: years of low-fat messaging, ultra-processed carbs sold as “better,” and a generation that ends up sicker, then gets medicated at scale. That’s not just a nutrition debate. It’s a trust debate, and it sets the tone for everything else we talk about. From there, we zoom out to the familiar ...

People in this episode

Host: Taylor Johnatakis

Topics covered

• power
• public health
• nutrition
• trust
• credibility
• politics

Keywords

• food
• public health
• low-fat messaging
• ultra-processed carbs
• trust debate
• nutrition

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