Navigating American Nutrition - One Size Fits All? (S9:E11)
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This episode explores the evolution of American nutrition and the influences behind the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Send us Fan Mail Every five years, a massive set of rules, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), quietly changes the way 300 million people are "supposed" to eat. But who actually writes these rules? Is it pure science, or is it just the latest dietary trend? In this episode, we sit down with April Fogelman to go behind the scenes of the federal nutrition recommendations that were recently updated. We’re digging into the evolution of American nutrition, from the nostalgia of the pyramid...
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