
Fault Lines - Fast Food, Fat Profits - Obesity in America
Two out of three Americans are overweight and one in three is obese, with projections showing one in three could have diabetes by 2050. African-Americans show a 50 percent higher prevalence of obesity than whites, Hispanics 25 percent higher. Al Jazeera correspondent Josh Rushing reports from the neighborhoods where cheap, processed food is often the only option, visiting food deserts and school cafeterias to ask who decided what ends up on the plate. Nutrition researcher Marion Nestle and Yale's Marlene Schwartz break down how food marketing and school lunch policy shape what children eat, while industry voices like John Bode and Nelson Eusebio defend the economics of low-cost food production. Physician Olajide Williams talks about treating the health consequences in his patients, and food writer Ed Bruske describes efforts to change what actually gets served in schools. Rushing also finds people building alternatives, small urban farms and community groups trying to get real food into places the supply chain has largely abandoned.