My friend Dr. Barry Popkin stops by to talk about the dangers of sugar and also the difficulty in passing legislation to help regulate it globally. It’s no secret that the obesity crises was brought on by sugary snacks and drinks. Dr. Popkin explains how we never were a snacking species and also never had this amount of sugar in our diets. This is an amazing conversation with an incredible human being
The World Is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race
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Barry M. Popkin, PhD, is the W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Cornell University. He established the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology at UNC and later established and led the UNC Interdisciplinary Obesity Center, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He developed the concept of the Nutrition Transition, the study of the dynamic shifts in dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends around obesity and other nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NCD). His research program focuses globally (both in the U.S. and in low- and middle-income countries) on understanding the stages of transition and is currently focused on working with the impact of programs and policies meant to improve the health of the population during their time of transition.
Having played a central role in placing the concerns of global obesity, its determinants and consequences on the global stage, Popkin is involved now in work on the program and policy design and evaluation side at the national level, including collaborative sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)/junk food tax evaluation research in Mexico (with the National Institute of Public Health) in evaluating the impact of the Mexican SSB and nonessential food taxes, and in conducting similar work with the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile in evaluating an SSB tax and regulatory policies to create healthier diets and prevent obesity and other nutrition-related NCDs. Similar collaborations with the University of Western Cape and Wits Universities Priceless research team on evaluating the sugar-sweetened tax in that country and working on other obesity prevention activities, and related programs collaborating with the University of Sao Paulo and Javeriana University in Colombia and Brazil, respectively. His group also is actively involved in research in the US and other countries on policies to improve our global diets with the Global Food Research Program of UNC(see globalfoodresearchprogram.org)
Popkin was an original member of the G-7 (“Group of 7”) Food and Nutrition Security Initiative, the first mission to work with the former Soviet Union. The G-7 nations originally included the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. They later became known as the G-8 when Russian was added. He has also participated in an array of international initiatives related to food, hunger and obesity, including directing longitudinal surveys in China and Russia and involvement in the survey research in Brazil, Mexico, China and several countries in Southeast Asia. Popkin has noted that the ways people eat, drink and move have changed drastically since World War II, contributing to the increase of obesity. This was the premise of his widely popular book, The World is Fat (January 2009, Avery-Penguin Publishers), which was translated into 11 languages.
He has received a dozen major awards for his global contributions, including the 2016 World Obesity Society: Population Science and Public Health Award–for top global research in public health with also significant service contributions; 2015 U.K Rank Science Prize; and The Obesity Society’s Mickey Stunkard Lifetime Achievement Award. He has published more than 615 refereed journal articles, and is one of the most cited nutrition scholars in the world, with more than 162,000 citations. He has chaired the dissertation committees of nearly 60 doctoral students at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and has served as principal investigator on grants totaling more than $135 million, many funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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