Summary: 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.
