Earlier this week I wrote about Jonathan Bloom's new book American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half Of Its Food (and what we can do about it). On a related note, this afternoon my wonderful and brilliant colleague Michael Webber will be on Science Friday to discuss the energy lost in the food we waste (
yes, the very same topic we wrote about in New Scientist
). Today's episode is broadly entitled "Healthy Eating:"
Only 26 percent of the nation’s adults eat vegetables three or more times a day, according to a recent report from the CDC. At the same time, the USDA estimates that Americans waste 27% of their food -- the energy equivalent of ~350 million barrels of oil a year. In this segment, we'll look at our eating habits, and why they can be hard to change.
Walter Willett, Chairman of the Nutrition Department at ...
