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Seth Kahan on Grand Challenges10 Key Elements to a Social MovementIn this episode, I talk about the 10 key elements for social change that have inspired my approach, based on the work of Dr Christina Economos and a team she led in 2001. This rubric is intuitive, easy to understand, and has an enormous impact.Click here to download a high-resolution image of the 10 key elements graphic.For all the podcasts, highlight videos, resources, and everything you want to know about Grand Challenges, click visit grandchallenges.info
2025-01-0210 min
Longer. Healthier. Better.Addressing obesity with Dr. Christina Economos – the obesity epidemic, exploring medical interventions, and living healthier though personalized nutritionIn the sixth episode of Longer. Healthier. Better., host Janet Wu discusses the issue of obesity in America, and it impacts our health and wellness with Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Dr. Christina Economos. Dr. Economos pulls from her extensive research on childhood obesity and weight management tools in this conversation around longevity. Listen to Dr. Economos and Janet’s discussion about: US obesity trends within global, environment, and policy contexts The role of medical interventions like weight loss drugs as one tool to weight management Growing popul...
2024-11-2628 min
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)384. How Research Can Help Us Unlock Solutions to Our Current Health ChallengesIn partnership with the White House and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Food Tank recently co-hosted the "Advancing Food Is Medicine Approaches" Summit in support of the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” listen to a two-part session from the event, where food policy and public health experts discussed research in support of community empowerment, the politics that can get in the way of data collection, and the need to balance stats and figures with stories. Speakers from the panels include former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman; Dr. Christin...
2023-06-291h 13
Black Girl Couch ReviewsPeacemaker ”Monkey Dory”Peacemaker: Episode 5 "Monkey Dory" The team's undercurrent tension finally explodes when Peacemaker confronts Economos over putting his dad in jail; murn redirects the team's focus to the Butterfly plan; Leota asks Peacemaker to go easy on Economos.
Scorecard: 9.8/10
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2022-02-0412 minBlack Girl Couch ReviewsPeacemaker ”Better Goff Dead”Peacemaker: Episode 3 "Better Goff Dead" On their first official mission to assassinate suspected `butterflies', Economos and Murn bond, and Peacemaker and Harcourt reach an understanding; the whole job goes sideways with Judomaster's arrival.
Scorecard: 8.5/10
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2022-01-2321 min
The Rudd Report #2Shape Up Somerville - A Social Movement, Apr 29, 2009Christina Economos, Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Assoc. Dir., John Hancock Center for Physical Activity & Nutrition, Tufts Univ., talks to Kelly Brownell, Dir., Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, about Shape Up Somerville. Visit the Rudd Report website for more information: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/.
2012-06-2814 min
The Rudd Report #2How the Environment Affects Diet and Activity, Apr 29, 2009Christina Economos, Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Assoc. Dir., John Hancock Center for Physical Activity & Nutrition, Tufts Univ., talks to Kelly Brownell, Dir., Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, about the environment’s affect on diet & activity. Visit the Rudd Report website for more information: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/.
2012-06-2813 min
1370 Connection Healthy FridayHealthy Friday: Can a community get leaner?Can a community get leaner? A national expert on community lifestyle changes, Christina Economos, and Dr. Nancy Bennett, Director of the Center for Community Health.
2010-03-1900 min
Yale University: Health & MedicineThe Rudd Report: Shape Up Somerville - A Social MovementChristina Economos, Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Assoc. Dir., John Hancock Center for Physical Activity & Nutrition, Tufts Univ., talks to Kelly Brownell, Dir., Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, about Shape Up Somerville.
2009-04-2900 minYale University: Health & MedicineThe Rudd Report: How the Environment Affects Diet and ActivityChristina Economos, Chair, Childhood Nutrition; Assoc. Dir., John Hancock Center for Physical Activity & Nutrition, Tufts Univ., talks to Kelly Brownell, Dir., Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, about the environment’s affect on diet & activity.
2009-04-2900 min