Welcome to bay area focus. Im susan sikora. My first guest is a professor at new York Universitys Department of nutrition, food studies, and public health. Marianne nestle has been a member of the fda food advise or committee and safety board. Shes written awardwinning books on food safety and has much to say about why what we eat can leave us at risk, unhealthy, and obese. If i find food costly and its labels confusing, youre not alone. What is wrong with our food system . She addresses that question in her new book eat, drink, vote. Mary ann nestle, welcome. Glad to be here. You say you write a lot about the politics. I do. And that makes us think, you know, what is really going on . Lets start with the fda. Youre on an advise or board to them. Not on the fda, right . I was on an advisory board. If only they listened to me. I was going to say, did they listen . Probably not. They most definitely did not. I was on the advisory board. A bunch of us advised the fda to lable modified foo
Evidence that dinosaurs had cancer. But cancer is found in many kinds of animals. It is found in the remains of egyptians varied buried several thousand years ago. It is a phenomenon of life, specially human life. There is a variety of factors that can increase the risk of any single individual developing cancer. By far the greatest in our society is use of tobacco. But obesity, lack of exercise, alcohol use, exposure to sunlight are among some of the causes. Is not as asbestos longer use but is another cause. Yes marco we need vitamin d. It there are other ways to get vitamin d. Modest exposure to sunlight is very different than the kinds of anosures that lead to ordinance numbers of mutations as a result of uv exposures. Most people get plenty of vitamin d. Deficiencies in vitamin d cant. E repaired i taking it orally host how important is it to listen to your body . Early detection and early wariness in terms of riveting or allowing you to live with cancer and it being treated, rega
if only there was a guide to help shoppers weed out the real food from the fake processed stuff, as some may say. well, summer tomato.com has created just that sort of thing for us. as we show this flowchart for you, we also like to bring in the author of what to eat. nutrition expert nyu professor, mary ann nestle. have you seen this chart before? yes, i love it. it looks like it came right out of my book. maybe it did. let s make that a different discussion. i have two pieces of common things we may eat every day. orange juice and some chips. we re going to go through a flowchart. i want you to follow along with me. this is orange juice. the first question is does it have a label? answer, yes. this does have a label? yes. does it make health claims? no, it does not. was it ever alive? yes, it s orange juice.
that day. she was hospitalized for several days and was released from the hospital. one of the first things she said she wanted to do was to go back to the office to thank all the other staff members that are part of congresswoman giffords team. she went back to the office. she also talked about spending time with congresswoman giffords. here s what she said a short time ago. you guys, we re a family. i never realized how much of a family until now. i absolutely am so, so blessed to, one, be alive, and so incredibly blessed to have my family. i was able to see gabbi, and mark came over and got me, and it was very, very important for me to see her. and she is beautiful. she s absolutely beautiful. and she squeezed my hand, and i mark yelled pam s here. and it may have been reflex, but i ll take. it was a good squeeze, and, you know, a little tight hug. reporter: the scene was warm inside congresswoman giffords office. to see a colleague and friend who was injured here
night, it has now become a national conversation. isl suzanne malveaux is live at the white house. looks like the president, shall we say, elevated the debate? he certainly waded into the debate here, john and kiran. i have to tell you for weeks i ve been asking robert gibbs pushing him on this matter whether or not the white house had an opinion on it. they said it was a local matter. now white house aides are stelg telling us that it is an issue of timing, that the president originally wanted to weigh in on the controversy but they wanted to clear it first with the local zoning board and they wanted the right moment. there was the dinner recognizing the beginning of the holy month ramadan on friday. that s when the president did make it clear that he believed it was appropriate that muslims had every right to build this mosque near ground zero. then there was a lot of criticism that came from those comments after he made them. it was less than 24 hours he told our own ed