Media Center
Welcome to our Media Center—a hub for news, press coverage, and media inquiries related to our work in food and nutrition policy.
For press inquiries, contact:
Christina A. Roberto, PhD
Director
croberto@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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Experts in Action
See our team members featured in the media, offering their insights on key topics.
Doctors are biased against higher-weight patients. Can nutrition education help them change?
The main value of mandatory nutrition education lies in the opportunity to tackle the subject of weight bias and to help doctors understand why it’s important to refer certain people—a patient with type 2 diabetes or someone who’s taking a GLP-1 weight loss drug—to registered dieticians and nutritionists who can help them plan optimal diets for their specific situations.
Kennedy Report Won’t Solve America’s Food Issues, Experts Say
The issues they’re focused on for food and nutrition are really spot on,” Dr. Roberto said. But, she added, “the devil is completely in the details.
The Jarring Contradiction at the Heart of Kennedy’s Agenda
That is something that no prior administration has been able to do,” said Alyssa Moran, a nutrition policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania. “And it really is taking on Big Soda.
