Nutrition Talk

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.

Your host Alexandra Tung discusses the importance and effectiveness of using different forms of media in reaching and educating people about agriculture, food and the environment with guests Ana Sofia Jones, director of the documentary, "Fresh" and Anna Lappe, food activist and writer, whose upcoming Book ?Diet for a Hot Planet? will address the issue of Food and Climate Change. Our guests will speak about the different mediums they use to spread their message and explore innovative channels of spreading ideas and knowledge about our food system.

Your host Mona Hdeib discusses the link between changes in eating behavior and patterns of eating due to and during times of stress, as well as how chronic stress may lead to obesity with guest Dr. Susan Roberts, scientist and professor of Nutrition as well as psychiatry at Tufts University, whose new book The ?i? Diet looks at using a person?s neurobiology to control weight. She will help us discern through the scientific and popular culture information available on the topic of psychology of stress, through changes in brain chemistry, that lead to changes in how we eat during these times and how these stress-adaptation eating behaviors eventually lead to weight gain if not managed properly.

Your host Lindsay Peterson discusses the difficulty of getting reliable nutrition information through the popular press and more specifically, how to make sense of the information that is currently available by examining what is most important to consider when deciding what to eat.

Your host Sarah Hippert explores the parent-child feeding relationship and its consequences for child weight status with guest Dr. Erin Hennessy, New Balance Fellow in Childhood Nutrition at the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition. With her help we'll take a look at the implications of parenting style, parent-feeding style, and feeding practices as they affect child eating behavior and child weight. We'll also consider the application of Erin?s research for childhood obesity policy interventions that are currently underway in Washington and throughout our nation.

In this episode, Meghan Johnson discusses how to eat well when you have been diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes.

Your host Jessica Ilyse Smith investigates the details of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and how they impact our health, nutrition, and the environment. Our guests Dr. Kathleen Merrigan, Dr. Timothy Griffin, Dr. Robert Russell, and Dr. Beatrice Rogers explore the science and policy of GMOs in the United States and around the world.

Your host Lara Ulfers discusses the current economic downturn and its impact on food prices and consumer choices at the grocery store and at the American table. To help us sort out the facts, Dr. Parke Wilde, food economist and Associate professor in the Food Policy and Applied Nutrition program at Friedman, and Dr. Jeanne Goldberg, Director of Nutrition Communications Graduate program at the Friedman School will help us gain a better understanding of food economics and the impact it has on food price and availability at the grocery store. For the second half hour we will talk with registered dietitians, Joan Salge-Blake, RD, nutrition author, and ADA spokeperson, and Carrie Taylor, RD, LDN with Big Y Foods and MDA Board member, about the role health care providers play in providing consumers with advice for eating healthfully during such a financially difficult time.

Your host Ashley Reynolds meets with the faculty leading one of Tufts' inaugural university-wide interdisciplinary seminars, "The Obesity Epidemic: Science and Food Economics." They will discuss the process of developing the course and the variety of research topics students in the course are exploring. Faculty guests include: -Dr. Susan Roberts, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging -Dr. Robin Kanarek, School of Arts and Sciences -Dr. Emmanuel Pothos, School of Medicine -Dr. Parke Wilde, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy -Dr. Sai Das, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

Your host Alexandra Tung discusses the Positive Deviance Approach and its applications with guests Monique Sternin, co-founder of the Positive Deviance Initiative (PDI) and Randa Wilkinson, Director of Training for PDI.

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.

Your host Erin Dubich treats you to a series of short podcasts that emphasize how to enjoy winter produce. Each podcast highlights a single food. Erin shares tips on how to choose, store, and prepare these foods, as well as their nutritional value.