Thirty-five years after the first dietary guidelines, how much do we really know about the science behind a healthy diet?
Scott Michels
Scott Michels is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. His short - and long - form documentaries on topics including police reform, immigration and the war in Afghanistan have been shown by PBS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ABC and Vice. He wrote and produced “Crisis on Campus,” about tensions on college campuses after the Oct. 7 attack and war in Gaza, for PBS Frontline. Scott was the senior series producer for “Extremism in America,” a five-part digital series and broadcast film for PBS World that examined the decades-long rise of violent hate groups in America. The series won the Online Journalism, Webby and EPPY awards. Scott is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Columbia Journalism School.
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