How Food Marketing is Making Us Sick and Fat with Dr. Sean Lucan

Major packaged food companies are like drug dealers pushing their addictive products. Unregulated food marketing targets children, the underserved, and minorities and pushes the sugar-sweetened beverages and industrial foods responsible for our epidemic of childhood obesity and racial disparities in health, predominantly in the African American and Latin American communities.

My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is making waves when it comes to food marketing. Dr. Sean Lucan is a practicing family physician in the Bronx, NY, treating children and adults. He is also an award-winning NIH-funded investigator who has published numerous articles on food-related issues. In fact, he published a paper which contributed to supporting a ban on alcohol advertising. And, in this episode, he talks about this ban as well as his research on food advertising in urban areas.