Can climate change solutions be served with school lunches?

<p>Does America have a healthy relationship with food?</p><p><br></p><p>In addition to the direct health effects of diet, food production and distribution affects environmental factors, which then trickles down to our health statuses. For example, an estimated one quarter of <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1179747/greenhouse-emissions-from-food-production-categories-worldwide/">global greenhouse gas emissions relate to food production</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>In a new paper published in the climate-centric December edition of <em>Health Affairs</em>, Mary Kathryn Poole, a PhD student in population health sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues explored the relationship between <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01102">The National School Lunch Program, one of the largest federal food programs</a>, and its impacts on the environment.</p><p><br></p><p>In this week’s episode of A Health Podyssey, Alan Weil interviews Mary Kathryn Poole to discuss her paper, the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sustainability/plate-and-planet/#planetary-health-diet">EAT-Lancet Commission’s reference diet</a>, <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/elevate-your-plate/">strategies to reduce red meat consumption</a>, and how they relate to planetary health diets.</p><p><br>Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/a-health-podyssey">RSS</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-health-podyssey/id1533852530">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2EtaGVhbHRoLXBvZHlzc2V5">Google Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3tAEbXdlzlcgjLTHfJMYqR">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://castro.fm/itunes/1533852530">Castro</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=576615&amp;refid=stpr">Stitcher</a></p>