Jun 03 Watch Mississippi ‘Food Deserts’ Fuel Obesity Epidemic As the government highlights the growing health risks of childhood obesity, Betty Ann Bowser reports from the Mississippi Delta on how so-called "food deserts" keep some communities from access to healthy food. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch First Lady Kicks Off Campaign Against Childhood Obesity Michelle Obama launched a new program Tuesday aimed at eliminating childhood obesity within one generation. The "Let's Move" initiative, which seeks to reshape childhood eating and exercise habits, marks her first major public policy effort as first lady. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity In an interview with Jim Lehrer, first lady Michelle Obama said it's critically important for the future of the country to bring childhood obesity under control and encourage more physical fitness. Continue watching
Nov 26 Barbara Kingsolver Discusses Eating Locally By Tom LeGro Happy Thanksgiving! As many of us sit down today for a meal with friends and family, we thought you might enjoy the short clip below. In it Jeffrey Brown talks to writer Barbara Kingsolver about the sustainable food movement. Continue reading
Nov 17 USDA: 1 in 7 U.S. Households Struggle for Food At some point in 2008, 14.6 percent of U.S. households had trouble finding food, a 3.5 percent increase from 2007 and the highest since the USDA has kept records. Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch More Americans Facing Hunger, Report Finds A new report found that almost 15 percent of U.S. households had trouble finding enough food in 2008. Jeffrey Brown speaks with experts for more. Continue watching
Nov 03 A Mission to Save a Cultural Legacy, One Deli Sandwich at a Time By Arts Desk Last month, writer and journalist David Sax visited the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., to kibbutz about a favorite, salivating subject: the delicatessen. Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch Tracking Tainted Food a Near Impossibility in U.S. Lee Hochberg reports on the difficulty in tracking the source of tainted foods and the complicated trail from production to sale. Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch Dr. Kessler Delves Into the Mysteries of Food Cravings Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to author Dr. David Kessler about overeating and what is behind people's cravings, the subject of his new book, "The End of Overeating."… Continue watching
May 13 Conversation: Author Mark Kurlansky on ‘America Eats’ By Arts Desk Throughout the Depression, an ambitious New Deal project called "America Eats" employed secretaries and unemployed journalists, as well as literary luminaries -- Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston and Eudora Welty -- to research and write about the nation's gastronomic traditions,… Continue reading