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The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
Hosted by Brian Kenny / Harvard Business Review
The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
Episode Summary
One third of the U.S. population is obese, even as 50 million Americans often struggle to find enough to eat. And all that in a country where 40% of the food made and purchased each year is thrown away, and in which food needs are expected to more than double over the next few decades. Harvard Business School professor Jose Alvarez discusses how the former president of Trader Joe's is boiling these difficult problems down into one elegant solution in a pilot store in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and blazing a trail toward sustainability in the process.
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