This big revelation your health and your lifespan have a lot to do with the neighborhood where you live. Move over, income inequality. Make room, as well, for health inequality. Heres Eyewitness News reporter stacey sager. With nearly 40 of the residents here living below the poverty level, its not terribly surprising that new york citys Health Department ranks brownsville the most unhealthy community in brooklyn. Question is, will the citys new study make a difference . All of this is something that we can change. But talk to people in this community and you get one message loud and clear we are what we eat, and healthier food is expensive. I just spent 400, and i dont even see on what. 400 . Yes. In these two wagons . Thats it. My sugar is going through the roof, and my blood pressures going through the roof. If you go into stores, most of their food is processed. There are many other factors the city looked at, everything from air quality to the accessibility of good healthcare. And
To get things done. His defense team says what the feds call influence peddling and kickbacks are just friends helping friends. He is a big, public figure people know. Hes got a Top Legal Team on their side. And you never know what a jury is going to do. Reporter silver stepped down as speaker when he was arrested. He is pleading not guilty to all of the charges. This trial is expected to take four to six weeks. Were live in lower manhattan, lisa evers, fox 5 news. Back to you. Dari Quentin Tarantino is saying he will not be intimidated by Police Groups calling for a boycott of his film. This is the first time he commented since he spoke out about police brutality, referring to cops at murderers. The director says the Law Enforcement groups have attempting to bully him instead of dealing with the problem of police brutality. Identified the remains of a marine from queens who fought in world war ii in november 1943. James riley took part in the battle for an island. The 20yearold was am
Industry and brought to you as a Public Service by local cable satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. The book is called food politics how the Food Industry influences nutrition and health the author Marion Nestle who is a professor of nutrition, food studies and Public Health at New York University. Professor nestle, how big is the use of industry . Its more than a trillion dollars a year. Its enormous. It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. Day. They couldnt be more important. In your book you can. To the tobacco industry. Only in certain ways. Food is very different from tobacco. Tobacco is simple. [inaud] one product, really bad for health, clearly responsiblef for terrible form of cancer and deaths, and theres one message, dont smoke. Food is much more complicated than that. You cant tell people not toudil eat. The
It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. Its simple. One product is really bad for health [inaudible] they cant live with it if they dont eat and its not just one product. Its thousands of products but the question dealing with nutrition issues [inaudible] [inaudible] calories available in the food supply every day and the people read about these figures so the Food Industry is competitive and it has to find lots of ways and in doing that as the number of calories increase it is to contain more and more ways to push food on people and it did that very effectively. Host how did it do that . Guest we have to go back into the 70s. Starting in the late 1970s, early 1980s three things happened. First was that the cultural policy is changed so that instead of paying farmers not to grow food, we paid them to grow as much as they can and they do and thats why theres more calories in t
Dr. Andrew weil is one of the worlds leading voices on Holistic Health. Hes a graduate of harvard medical school. Hes also widely known for establishing the field of Integrative Medicine. If you dont know already thats the combination of the best tenets of conventional and alternative medicine to create a more holistic treatment plan for patients. Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the center for Integrative Medicine at the university of arizona. Hes authored 10 books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. One of the cornerstones of his philosophy on Better Health is diet. Hes recreated the food pyramid to emphasize antiinflammatory foods, including organic fruits and vegetables. Hes also a fan of seafood and healthy fats. Dr. Weil believes reducing chronic inflammation within the body can offset many health problems. I recently sat down with dr. Andrew weil in washington, d. C. To get his insights on the connection between food and Better Health and discuss his new