Guest Nancy Zucker, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Eating Disorders, Duke University Medical Center, discusses her research on picky eaters, and explains what is typical, what is not and why Duke Center for Eating Disorders
Guest Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association, defines organic, busts myths, and explains the unique benefits of organic farming and food production Organic Trade Association
Guest Routt Reigart, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, co-editor of the 6th Edition of the EPA Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, and Father of the Childrens Environmental Health Movement, discusses the impact of pesticides on childrens health Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings
Guest JoAnne Berkenkamp, M.S., Senior Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Food and Agriculture Program discusses food waste. NDRC
Guest Robert McChesney, Ph.D., Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and cofounder, Free Press, discusses media, money and politics as it influences food and farming choices. The need for media literacy has never been greater Robert W. McChesney
Guest Douglas Gayeton, award-winning multi-media artist and mastermind behind the Lexicon of Sustainability, and Lexicon of Food, explains why and how he and wife Laura Howard-Gayeton, use language and graphics to transform our food system Lexicon of Food
Guest Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D. dietitian and organic garlic farmer reveals the single barrier preventing her from farming in her youth; she describes the soil-food web, the benefits of organic farming, and connects soil, plant and human health Dyer Family Organic Farm
Guest Katherine Pryor, childrens book author and sustainable food systems educator returns to discuss the story behind her latest delightful book, Zoras Zucchini. Perfect for food literacy classroom activities and helping children appreciate gardenings power in building a healthy community Meet Author Katherine Pryor
Guest Anna Lappe, sustainable food advocate, and co-author of Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food, reveals how industry front groups mislead, misinform, and twist how we think about food and farming Anna Lappe
Guest Richard Bickel, international photojournalist, captures images of the Oystermen of Apalachicola, FL, and describes environmental threats to the region, its prized shellfish, people and culture Apalachicola Riverkeeper
Guest Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Birds and Beans Coffee, LLC, explains how shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee protects migratory bird populations, and our planet Birds and Beans
Guest Lani Malmberg, gypsy goat herder, describes how and why she works with goats to provide a safe, natural, ecological answer to weed control and land restoration Manage Weeds with Goats
Guest Sean Sellers, M.A., Senior Investigator/Monitor, Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota, FL, describes farm labor conditions in Immokalee Florida, and how farmworker standards, monitoring and education have advanced the human rights of farmworkers and supported ethical supply chains Fair Food Standards Council
Guest Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor, Independent Science News, Ithaca, NY, questions the assumptions, narratives, and PR spin re food, agriculture, and biotechnology Independent Science News
Guest Louis Guillette, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Marine Laboratory, describes his research showing how environmental contaminants harm alligators and similarly, humans Beyond Pesticides
Guest Amy Mondlach, Toxic Tater Campaign Coordinator, describes how pesticide drift from potato fields owned by Ronald D. Offutt (RDO), the largest potato grower in the world and one of McDonalds leading potato suppliers, are harming children and the environment in north central Minnesota Toxic Taters
Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health, discusses the impact of antibiotic overuse, the promise and uncertainties of probiotics, the gut-brain connection and how aging impacts the microbiota. (Part II) Sonnenberg Lab
Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health, describes our gut bacterias role in health and disease. (Part I) Sonnenberg Lab
Guest Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, associate research nutritional biologist, University of California-Davis, discusses the relationship between sugar consumption, metabolic disease and industrys influence on science and health policy SugarScience
Guest E. G. Vallianatos, Ph.D., author of Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, takes us behind the scenes of his 25 year career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Poison Spring
Guest Jeannie Economos, Pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator, Farmworker Association of Florida, discusses toxic Lake Apopka how agriculutral chemicals have harmed the natural environment and farmworker health Farmworker Association of Florida
Guest Andy Bellati, M.S., R.D., explains how the food industry influences what we think about food and health, and food industry deception vs. reality Small Bites
Bruce Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H, clinician scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Childrens Hospital, and Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, talks about environmental toxins, their impact on childrens health, and profit motives that take precedence over public health Environmental Health Atlas
Guest Jennifer Hartle, PhD., M.H.S., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Standford University School of Medicine, and environmental health scientist talks about Bisphenol-A (BPA), the estrogen-mimicking compound that leaches out of plastics, food and beverage cans, and found in school lunch BPA Guide
Guest Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., dietitian with expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention describes the most important steps we can take to improve our diets. Tune in for a big picture look at nutrition science No Nutrition Fear
Guest Lenore Arab, Ph.D. Nutritional epidemiologist, UCLA, explains how fruits, vegetables and unique components of tea can help protect our health Lenore Arab
Guest Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States discusses his organizations role in protecting animal welfare, our natural kinship with animals, and ways we can see through corporate propaganda about industrial farms Humane Society of the United States
Guest Jahi Chappel, Ph.D. Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about Deepening Food Democracy, the report he co-authored Deepening Food Democracy
Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer and entrepreneur describes his local foods cost calculator to increase the the use of locally raised food in restaurants and food service SCALE
Guest Stephen Ritz, South Bronx educator featured in TEDx Manhattan, one of the top 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize describes the Green Bronx Machine and how growing vegetables in school changed the lives of his students in one of the poorest school districts in the country Green Bronx Machine
