It is my great pleasure to introduce a conversation to set to celebrate a great new exhibit called whats cooking on uncle sam . There are great artifacts that they wrote to president Theodore Roosevelt that gave rise to the first fda has recipes from president eisenhower it is a fascinating history of food regulation we have to leading experts of government and food and health that is seemingly a symbol of the topic the first is the great the to manual from the chair of medical ethics code policy at university of pennsylvania and a phenomenal chef it got rave reviews from the Washington Post and members of the Supreme Court and is now on the james beard nominating committee. To be a great ship it just a great chef and a great friend joined by a professor of law at harvard is the director and founder of the food wall lab working on a book. We could not have done better. This conversation will be moderated by michael who is our new visiting scholar at the National Constitution center and
Assessment of how food affects the body and induce us to have high glucose levels and then to crash and effect your insulin in the Major Development of the type ii diabetes in the country and if we had this i think would be a useful label for diabetics as well as those of us that are not diabetic but those that want to gain a better way to avoid for the long term to avoid type ii diabetes to have a high glycemic index fingers that have a lower glycemic index. That would be one way of getting to the sugar element without an assault and provide information to regular folks like us as well as the millions and millions of people that have type ii diabetes. Next question. Im going to shorten it. Its basically about the extent possible that all the regulations we have been talking about increased the cost. So the question is that a concern and we increase the cost perhaps with less regulation. It is true that the regulations can cost money and i think we got pretty good at trying to estimate
And taste is such that you dont want it, then we have a different kind of problem that we need to solve. And we have all three of those issuings, currently. I would just say one of my great frustrations having worked in the government, is how much we, as a country, and its very understandableble would give people the information and theyll act on it. But people who smoke know more about the ill Health Effects than you do about smoking. Right . Theyve gotten that information in their ear. Theyve actually absorbed it more than most people. We have a lot of data about that. So going from information to the right behavior is a very big step. Its typically information is, of course, necessary, but its almost never su efficient. And we over and over again, when we think about government doing things, over and over again, passed regulations and laws, if that were easy. Youre just giving the information. Theyll be free to act. We dont think about how hard it is. And i think youve made an excel
This was run by the department of agriculture. That was viewed as not acceptable. I thought it was perfectly acceptable. It was a very important task of whether in fact, or how much soda can contribute to obesity. So we do we have a lot of play in the government. At the school lunch program, with what we permit people to buy with wic and food stamps. Its an influence on what people do consume. And i think, again, we all pay for it. We pay for it coming in, in terms of the food. We also pay for it going out as people get obese on those diets. So i think being more or shaping them much more and not just chloric intake is pretty important. So with the school lunch program, do we agree that theres some other way to perhaps fix that . I think they have gotten belter than they were. I think thats relatively uncon tro verse sal. Some were attributed to different products or different food groups. Theres been some controversy there. But i think overall, its to notice that its just a remarkable
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