on tonight s brand new episode of parts unknown, anthony bourdain explores seattle s food and music scene. here s our conversation. i m curious why you chose to go to the pacific northwest. what lured you over? it s a very chef friendly environment. very early on in the food revolution. seattle took the lead. it became a food destination and a hot house of chefs and artisinal spirits. even before sort of the larger cities caught the foodie craze and the chef craze, seattle was way out in front. i guess i picked seattle as the
we have teamed up with a new cnn.com food destination, eatocracy.com to bring you eatocracy, mind, body, wallet and it s not just unemployment and monster foreclosures threatening people of detroit these days. they face major health problems because of a lack of nutritious foods in low-income neighborhoods. poppy harlow joins us from new york. poppy, how serious is this? reporter: it s interesting. it seems like drew, detroit can t get a break, huge education problems, huge unemployment problems, they ve got a huge, huge health crisis. when you look at the numbers, there is a 50% higher obesity rate in detroit than national average. the diabetes rate there for adults and kids is 70% higher than the national average. it is so serious that there was a study done that found out that the people in the inner city and the low-income neighborhoods that don t have easy access to healthy food are much more likely to die prematurely because of it. it s a serious crisis facing detroit, so we we
cnn.com food destination. eatocracy.com. childhood obesity rates have doubled over the past 20 years. cnn special investigation finds the u.s. government may be contributing to the problem with its free lunches. kate bolduan reports. reporter: in san francisco, deanna waldo saw a crisis unfolding in her son s middle school cafeteria. there was not a single thing being sold at that time that i would have wanted my children to eat. reporter: waldo then became a school cafeteria crew seder. taking on what she calls the carnival foods schools were feeding children every day. soda and potato chips and hamburgers the size of your head. reporter: she found a grend in the district s new school nutrition director, ed wilkens. it was hard. a lot of people weren t quite ready for the big changes that would have to take effect. reporter: but they persisted. it took years. but eventually replaced junk
telling you this week, cnn taking a cross country food tour, if you will. we ve got reporters all over the place reporting about food this week. what are we trying to get at here? we re trying to get some answers about how our food is grown, how the choices we make impact our health, our state of mind, our budgets. and, yes, just the pure joy of having a good meal. we have teamed up with our new cnn.com food destination, eatocracy.com. mind, body and wallet. on that note, you heard it from nutritionists. stay away from high fructose corn syrup. but its makers now say the product is getting a bad rap. cnn brianna keilar separates fact from delicious fiction. reporter: just walk down the aisle of your grocery store. check out the ingredients on labels. and you ll see the same thing over and over. high fructose corn syrup is the first ingredient. reporter: it s in pancake syrup. cookies.
a lot of fried food. you know, a lot of food that has been highly processed. i try to stay away from that generally. generally. you do what you can. but cnn taking a cross country food journey all this week. we sent our reporting team down all over the place. our mission is to get fresh answers about how our food is grown, how the choices we make impact our health, our state of mind, budgets and of just pure joy of eating. we seemed up with a food destination eatocrocy.com to bring you mind, body and wallet. today we re focusing on what you eat and how we should eat. take a listen to this. boy, i was raised eating healthy. but somewhere down the line i strayed. i think a whole lot about what i eat. you know? i have heart condition.