http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/controlling-the-american-appetite
Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM EDT Controlling the American Appetite Listen http://www.onpointradio.org/stand-alone-player?fileUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fwbur%2Fstorage%2F2009%2F07%2Fonpoint_0702_1.mp3&fileTitle=Controlling%20the%20American%20Appetite&starttime= http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/storage/2009/07/onpoint_0702_1.rm mms://realserver.bu.edu:554/w/b/wbur/storage/2009/07/onpoint_0702_1.wma Remember David Kessler back in the 1990s, when he was head of the FDA? The guy who took on Big Tobacco? He's on a new crusade now, and it's not about smoking, it's about eating - about our national culture of food. He points to a huge and profitable food industry and its legion of well-paid scientists who work hard to make their products literally irresistible, to make us eat almost non-stop. He says we've got to understand our own appetites, and to change how America looks at food. This hour, On Point: David Kessler on controlling the American appetite. You can join the conversation. Tell us what you think - here on this page, on Twitter, and on Facebook. -Jane Clayson, guest host Guest: Dr. David Kessler joins us from San Francisco. He was Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 1990-1997, under the first President Bush and President Clinton. During his time at the FDA, he led the campaign to regulate tobacco and the landmark lawsuit FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. He is a pediatrician and lawyer. His new book is "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite." Read an excerpt from the book, in which Kessler goes "inside the unregulated, wild world of food processing." http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/the-end-of-overeating-excerpt *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
