An interview with Charles Platkin: The Diet Detective

Charles Platkin: The Diet Detective For more than two decades, Dr. Charles Stuart Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH as been working to uncover the mysteries and myths surrounding food, nutrition, fitness and medicine. Started over 20 years ago, his non-profit Diet Detective has been educating and inspiring consumers to make meaningful changes in their lives. Charles...

Charles Platkin: The Diet Detective

For more than two decades, Dr. Charles Stuart Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH as been working to uncover the mysteries and myths surrounding food, nutrition, fitness and medicine. Started over 20 years ago, his non-profit Diet Detective has been educating and inspiring consumers to make meaningful changes in their lives. Charles teaches consumers to know the difference between facts and alternative facts, science and pseudoscience and getting to the truth about nutrition, food, health and the planet. He is the author of seven books. His first book, “Breaking the Pattern” was a bestseller in hardcover; it has been used by addiction clinics to assist patients with resolving drug and alcohol-related issues. He is also executive director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center.

Charles and I have known each other for over two decades. We first met in 1998 when he launched a health and fitness website called eFit. I was his communication director.  I also handled the publicity for a few of his books and his yearly airline food survey. So excited to talk with my friend!

Photo Courtesy of Alaska Airlines

Links to Charles Platkin’s social media and other items mentioned in the interview.

Instagram @dietdetective

Website: https://www.dietdetective.com

Diet Detective Airline Food Survey 2019

Diet Detective Airline Water Investigation

Subscribe to Diet Detective Newsletter

Banana Saver

Book to Plate Segment

Netflix’s Chef’s Table:  Grant Achatz, Alinea

Alinea Restaurant, Chicago

Dialogue Restaurant, Santa Monica, CA

Photos of meal.

Welcome to the CounterAutumn 2019 Menupimenton, coriander bubblesmountain magic tomatoes, thoughts of spainhamachi, peanut, charred lettucered pulse seaweed, uni, yuza, koshobroccolini and passonfruit bearnaisestrawberry “shave ice”“regrowth of sorrel”smoked maitake and cannellini a la Robuchon“the best part of apple picking”brussels, bartlett, venison“rabbit in the haystack”“sturgeon and its eggs’corn, hazelnut, trufflepork, butternut, burnt orangebeef, cipollini, misoparsnips-bark and maplebrioche, mulled quince, hibiscuschestnut, carmel, chocolatefrosted nog

E By Jose Andres, Las Vegas

Show Credits:

This episode was hosted by Melissa Goldberg 

Special thanks to my Program Director and Producer Shea Gunther

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