How does diet impact our health?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the documentary film Forks Over Knives. Two out of every three of Americans are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially among the younger population, and about half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. So what can be done to reverse these alarming statistics? Join us live at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How has your diet affected your health?

Guests:

Matthew Lederman, physician and co-founder of Exsalus Health and Wellness Center, Los Angeles, California

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, director of cardiovascular disease reversal and prevention at the Cleveland Clinic

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Do slaughterhouse videos influence you?

Do slaughterhouse videos change your opinion of how animals should be treated? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about undercover investigations into how animals are slaughtered for food. Have you been influenced by amateur videos and how? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. There have been efforts in many states to make these videos illegal. What do these videos reveal about how we treat animals? And should they be legislated? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tom Laskawy, a contributing writer on food and agriculture for Grist Magazine

Nathan Runkle, the founder and executive director of Mercy For Animals

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What is the most powerful way to change the American diet?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution. If what we eat is connected to personal and environmental health, how do we shift our collective habits? Is it getting more nutritious food in schools? Increasing organic options at Walmart? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What determines your diet? And how do we change our nation's food system? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America, The Food Revolution, and The New Good Life

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Are we on our way to healthy food for kids?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about school food. In a unanimous vote, the Senate approved $4.5 billion to increase the number of free meals and improve the quality of food served in schools nationwide. How significant a victory is this for the campaign to improve school food programs? What's next on that movement's agenda? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you seen menu changes in a school near you? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Janet Poppendieck, author of Free For All: Fixing School Food in America

Zenobia Barlow, cofounder and executive director of The Center for Ecoliteracy

Jennifer LeBarre, nutrition services director for Oakland Unified School District

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Your Call 121608 Eating the Sun

As we attempt to design a sustainable world, what can we learn from plants? On the next Your Call, we welcome Oliver Morton, editor of Nature and author of Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet. Morton argues that photosynthesis is not only the key to humanity's history; it is also vital to confronting and understanding contemporary realities like climate change and the global food shortage. How can understanding the history of science help us change what we're facing today? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Oliver Morton in San Francisco
Author of Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet. He is also the Chief News and Features Editor at Nature, the world's leading interdisciplinary science journal.

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Your Call 052808 The Ethics of Fruit Hunting

Is the hunt for new flavors from the far corners of the globe ever going to be consistent with an ethical and sustainable diet? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by two authors who've chronicled the ethics, economics and aesthetics of fruit: Adam Gollner, author of "The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession," and Dan Koeppel, author of "Bananas!: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World." There a quarter million fruit-bearing species, and eighty thousand of them are edible. Yet most of the fruit you'll eat in your lifetime comes from only twenty crops. Monoculture is a bad idea, but is hunting for nature's best any better? It's Your Call with guest host Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Dan Koeppel, well-known outdoors, nature, and adventure writer. He has written columns for the New York Times Magazine and Popular Science, as well as having written extensively in a variety of mountain biking periodicals.

Adam Leith Gollner has traveled around the globe to report on the fruit underworld. He's written for The New York Times, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Good Magazine. The former editor of Vice Magazine, he is also a musician. The Fruit Hunters is his first book. He lives in Montreal and Los Angeles.

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