It's All Connected

About this episode

In this episode, Marian introduces season two and discusses the complexities of the food system and its connections to public health.

Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast! We are kicking off season two, committed as always to reintroducing personal narratives into critical public health topics. Perhaps the most critical public health topic, broadly speaking, is food. Food touches so many areas of human life and society. It fuels our bodies, provides the building blocks for our minds, entertains us, drives the economy, and contributes to human health and disease. The way we grow and process food also impacts the climate, and environmental pollution. Laborers are exploited in the food system, plastic waste is created for the food system, and antibiotic resistance is driven, in part, by the use of antibiotics within the food system. Food is the epicenter of public health. This season, we will speak with chefs, policy pros, doctors, dietitians, farmers, and others who work at the intersection of human and planetary health, and food. We will hear from doctors who prescribe food as medicine, and from activists who promote healthy food access for all. Throughout these conversations, we will learn how food is more than "just food", and how we cannot tackle the topic of improving public health without…

People in this episode

Host: Marian Flaxman

Topics covered

• food system
• public health
• climate impact
• human health
• food access
• sustainability

Keywords

• food
• public health
• climate
• nutrition
• sustainability
• health access
• food system

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Organizations: The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast, www.MarianFlaxman.c

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