Season 12 • Episode 931

931 - A Big Setback for Nutrition Education

Aug 13, 2025

15:06

Nutrition & Diet Public Health Health Policy

Episode Description

About this episode:

Since 2010, the nonprofit ChopChop Family has published magazines, cookbooks, and other tools to help pediatricians and nutrition educators inform families about the positive health outcomes of cooking nutritious foods. But deep cuts to SNAP-Ed, the federally-funded nutrition education program, are placing programs like ChopChop Family in limbo. In this episode: ChopChop Family founder and president Sally Sampson explains how the rapid rollback of SNAP-Ed is crippling nutrition education.

Guest:

Sally Sampson is a cookbook author and the founder and president of ChopChop Family, a nonprofit publisher of cooking magazines, cookbooks, digital content, cooking curricula, and learning decks for children and families.

Host:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Show links and related content:

Budget cuts knock down a 'pillar of public health,' ending nutrition education—STAT
ChopChop Podcast—Apple Podcasts
ChopChop Family Newsletter—Substack

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