Fat Shaming, Sugar, Jonathan Gold's Favorite Dishes of 2014

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Jan. 03, 2015 Food & Drink

Is fat shaming worse in LA than in other cities? Plus, we discuss the new documentary Fed Up with its creators, and Jonathan Gold reviews favorite dishes of 2014..

Is fat shaming worse in LA than in other cities? Plus, we discuss the new documentary Fed Up with its creators, and Jonathan Gold's favorite dishes of 2014.

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From this Episode:

Is LA Full of Fat Shamers? Can You Fat Shame a Man?

Writer, actor and comedian Jen Curran moved to Los Angeles last year and was surprised to find a city full of bullies. She wrote a piece for the site XO Jane called I...

11 min

Health at Every Size

Dr. Linda Bacon is a professor of Nutrition and the author of the new book Health at Every Size : The Surprising Truth About Your Weight. She aims to debunk the cultural...

8 min

Fed Up, the Movie

Fed Up is a new documentary that asks why America's rate of obesity and disease have skyrocketed in recent decades, despite established health guidelines and a...

14 min

Big Sugar's Public Enemy Number One

Dr. Robert Lustig is a professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UC San Francisco. His youtube lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth , has been viewed over...

14 min

Jonathan Gold's Favorite Dishes of 2014

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he selects his favorite dishes of 2014 -- from chicken neck tacos to blood...

8 min