ENCORE. A Pyramid Scheme: Evolution of the US Food Pyramid Throughout History

The Hunger Trap Podcast

Diana and Lisa chat with Dr. Jessica Mudry, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University, about why the U.S. government got involved in people’s food choices, how everything from German capitalism to wars changed food guidelines and got us counting calories and macros, and how food lobbyists made us believe “milk it does a body good.”

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