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Robert Lustig | “Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 4, 2020 Mountain Dew Mouth has been the scourge of dentists for decades. But there’s a new disease which affects even more people: Mountain Dew Liver. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) wasn’t even discovered until 1980; and now up to 40% of Americans suffer from it, and it is now the leading cause of liver transplantation. Especially children – 13% of autopsies in children show NAFLD; and 38% of obese children. This disease belies all our other chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. And it is due to our excessive sugar consumption.

Christopher Gardner | “Stealth Nutrition”

March 19, 2019 Most people have plenty of room for improvement in the healthfulness of what they choose to eat and drink. The food industry has proven to be resourceful and clever in marketing a never-ending line of tasty, convenient and inexpensive products that tend to be unhealthy choices. Is the problem that people are confused about what is or isn’t healthy? 

Jerry Ann Hebron, Cindy Leung, Devita Davison, Lilly Fink Shapiro, and Winona Bynum | Setting the Table for Health Equity

January 14, 2020 In this session, speakers discussed what it means to “Set the Table for Health Equity” and gave a preview of the range of topics and guest speakers who will join us this semester. This session connects the dots between food systems, food security, and social determinants of health, as speakers discuss what these concepts look like in a community context both on campus and in Detroit.

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