S1E40 - From Lunchables to ‘Low Fat’: How Food is Designed to Keep You Hooked

What if your health choices aren’t really your own? 

Join us as we explore the powerful ways for-profit interests work to shape what we eat, drink and believe through product design, marketing and public policy influence. From tobacco to ultra-processed foods, industries have long leveraged science, psychology and messaging to drive consumption and decision-making, often at the expense of public health. 

Eva Zaret, MPH, of Central Vermont Medical Center breaks down the development and evolution of these profit-driven systems: from sugar research funded by corporate interests that reshaped nutrition science, to engi...