Jessica is back with her thoughts on the <a href= "https://time.com/7007857/ultra-processed-foods-advocate/?linkId=567243976"> TIME Magazine</a> article about her ultra-processed food experiment. She shares her takeaways, her favorite feedback and has some BIG FOOD fun! <a href= "https://www.embodylib.com/about">Patrilie Hernandez</a> then joins Jessica to talk about Dr. Kevin Hall's research on UPFs and the intersections of race and class with food. They then dive into <a href= "https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/consumer-reports-urges-usda-to-remove-lunchables-from-national-school-lunch-program/"> Lunchables-gate</a>, and food hysteria overall. You can become a podcast <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/MakingItAwkward">patron</a>! You can leave an awkward rating and review of this show! You can email the show at <a href= "mailto:makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com">makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com</a> Follow Jessica on Instagram <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jessicawilson.msrd/">@jessicawilson.msrd</a> and TikTok @byjessicawilson You can watch this episode on Spotify and at <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod">⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MakingItAwkwardPod⁠</a> Jessica's book: <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Its-Always-Been-Ours-Rewriting/dp/0306827697"> ⁠It's Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies⁠</a>

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What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.
From her conversation with the Make America Healthy Again spokesperson to the Oregon beef farmer this podcast connects it all. Listen each week as she brings something new to the conversation and at times makes it awkward.