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

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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.

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