Questioning Personal Responsibility in Chronic Illness and Disease
Yumlish: Diabetes and Multicultural Nutrition
English - December 16, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.4 MBHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Adele Hite discusses current gaps in nutritional health policy and raises important questions about the ethics of nutritional interventions. She talks about how the Dietary Guidelines for Americans created a correlation between diet and chronic disease that has shaped chronic disease management. Tune in to find out how you can challenge the rhetoric of personal responsibility and individualism as the cause of chronic illness and diabetes.
Adele Hite, PhD MPH RDN is a registered dietitian with graduate training in nutritional epidemiology and public health and a doctorate in rhetoric, communication, and digital media. Her work combines biomedicine and cultural studies to explore food politics, nutrition science, and public health nutrition policy.Giveaway: Head over to Yumlish’s social media for a chance to win a free copy of Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals!
“Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals harkens back to the day before we were concerned about links between diet and chronic disease. Back when we were concerned about making sure that we ate good foods rather than avoiding bad foods.”
Giveaway: Head over to Yumlish’s social media for a chance to win a free copy of Dinner Plans: Easy Vintage Meals!
Question of the Day: Have you ever had ethical issues with nutritional guidelines? If so, what?
On this Episode you will Learn:
Nutritional Prevention of Chronic Illness
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
Public Health and Nutrition Policies
Connect with Adele Hite!
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0:00 -Intro with Shireen!
1:36 -Why did you decide to pursue a career focused on public health nutrition policy?
3:00 -What does nutritional prevention of chronic disease currently look like in the United States?
5:05 -What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and how were they created?
19:30 -How do the reccomendations Dinner Plans Easy Vintage Meals differ from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
29:51 -How can listeners connect with you and learn more about your work?
34:10 -Outro with Shireen!