How To Prevent Childhood Obesity And Create Health For Our Kids

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Rupa Health.
  The foundation we set for our children’s health in
childhood—starting even before conception—will carry them
throughout their lives. Yet a third of all American children are
overweight or obese, and we are seeing an increase in type 2
diabetes in children.    In today’s episode, I talk with
Dr. Elizabeth Boham, Sam Kass, and Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh about the
urgency of prioritizing and establishing good nutrition habits in
infancy, in the home as the child grows, and in school. 
  Dr. Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who
practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox,
MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of
people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She
witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is
committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in
healing.   After cooking for the Obamas in Chicago for two
years, Sam Kass joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009.
During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles,
including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s
Move!” campaign and Senior White House Policy Advisor for
Nutrition. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he
helped Mrs. Obama create the first major vegetable garden at the
White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden. Currently,
Sam is a partner at Acre Venture Partners. Acre is a
venture-capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission
to improve human and environmental health in the food system. The
fund focuses on early-stage, highly disruptive impactful companies
in the food system focused on agriculture, the supply chain, and
the consumer. Sam is also the author of Eat a Little Better: Great
Flavor, Good Health, Better World.   Dr. Tracy Shafizadeh is
leading the work in understanding the infant microbiome. She is a
nutritional scientist who helps new and expectant moms learn about
creating healthy gut bugs in their babies. She translates her
extensive scientific knowledge of breastmilk and the gut microbiome
into practical terms to help parents understand how a balanced gut
from infancy can lead to a healthy immune system and metabolism for
life. Dr. Shafizadeh received her PhD in nutritional biology from
the University of California, Davis, and spends her free time
"loving the guts" out of her two boys.   This episode is
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create an account at RupaHealth.com. Full-length episodes of these
interviews can be found here: Dr. Elizabeth Boham Sam Kass Dr.
Tracy Shafizadeh