Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history.
Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode every two weeks.
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Kevin Hall is a former investigator at the National Institutes of Health. He is the co-author, with Julia Belluz, of the new book Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us. You can hear Kevin describing his research on ultra-processed foods in more depth in our recent episode Nutrition Advice Decoded.
Julia Belluz is a science and health journalist, and the co-author, with Kevin Hall, of Food Intelligence. She's appeared on two previous episodes of Gastropod, talking about the science of hunger and the rising audio volume in restaurants.
This episode of Gastropod was supported by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the Public Understanding of Science, Technology, and Economics. Check out the other books, movies, shows, podcasts, and more that they support here.
This episode of Gastropod was supported in part by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for our coverage of biomedical research.