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Allison Aubrey

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Allison Aubrey is Food & Health correspondent for NPR News, currently focused on healthy aging. Her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She's a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and is a founding host of NPR's Life Kit. She's a 2021 recipient of the Recognizing Excellence in Advancing Health Literacy award.

Along with her NPR science desk colleagues, Aubrey is the winner of a 2019 Gracie Award. She is the recipient of a 2018 James Beard broadcast award for her coverage of 'Food As Medicine.' Aubrey is also a 2016 winner of a James Beard Award in the category of "Best TV Segment" for a PBS/NPR collaboration. The series of stories included an investigation of the link between pesticides and the decline of bees and other pollinators, and a two-part series on food waste. In 2013, Aubrey won a Gracie Award with her colleagues on The Salt, NPR's food vertical. They also won a 2012 James Beard Award for best food blog. In 2009, Aubrey was awarded the American Society for Nutrition's Media Award for her reporting on food and nutrition. She was honored with the 2006 National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism in radio and earned a 2005 Medical Evidence Fellowship by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Knight Foundation. In 2009-2010, she was a Kaiser Media Fellow.

Aubrey is a founding host of Life Kit and also hosted NPR's Tiny Desk Kitchen video series. Before coming to NPR, Aubrey was a reporter for the PBS NewsHour

Aubrey received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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Thursday

For a food product to qualify as 'healthy' it must fall below certain limits on added sugars, sodium and saturated fat. Hispanolistic/Getty Images hide caption

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Who can say it's healthy? The FDA has a new definition for food labels

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Tuesday

Taking vitamin D supplements doesn't appear to prevent fractures among older adults, but the vitamin is necessary for overall health. Baac3nes/Moment RF/Getty Images hide caption

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Vit D doesn't prevent fractures but it's key to good health

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Monday

An FDA decision could come soon on whether to ban Red No. 3

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Saturday

More evidence that exercise can have beneficial effects on cognitive performance

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Tuesday

More evidence that exercise can have beneficial effects on cognitive performance

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Monday

What science tells us about aging and exercise

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A recall notice citing listeria contamination risks is posted next to Boar's Head meats in a Safeway store in San Rafael, Calif., in July, as the deli meat company expanded its recall of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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What to know about recent food recalls

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Thursday

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Dark Chocolate and diabetes

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Tuesday

CDC is recalling Mexican cucumbers due to a salmonella outbreak

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Monday

Moderate drinkers who also take weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro, report drinking less alcohol, a new study finds. AzmanJaka/Getty Images hide caption

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Social drinkers cut back on alcohol when on obesity drugs

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Monday

About 40% of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors, according to a Lancet commission report. MirageC/Getty Images hide caption

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Brain Care Score

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Friday

With RFK Jr.'s nomination for HHS secretary, he may have the opportunity to push forward the agenda of his 'Make American Healthy Again' movement. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

What types of measures would Robert F. Kennedy Jr. take to fight chronic disease?

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Sunday

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Stress Less 5: Resilience amid conflict 

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Monday

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Can stress be good?

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Monday

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Stress Less 3: Depolarize Within: Tools to De-Stress over the political divide.

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Tuesday

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Stress Less 2: Resilience for Activists.

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Monday

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 Stress Less 1:  8 Skills to reduce stress in challenging times

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Sunday

Tuesday

Rapamycin is being studied to see if it can slow down age-related diseases in humans

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Monday

A generic drug that's used to treat transplant patients has been shown to extend the life span of some animals. Guido Mieth/Getty Images hide caption

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Anti-aging drug Rapamycin to prevent gum disease 

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Monday

Sung Ihm Son fell into a depression when her husband died. Making new friends and taking classes like dance and art at GenSpace in Los Angeles helped her feel happy again. Allison Aubrey/NPR hide caption

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GenSpace aims to re-set what it feels like to get old

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Monday

Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babesiosis are spreading in the U.S. Ladislav Kubeš/Getty Images hide caption

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Once called Nantucket fever, this nasty tick-borne illness is on the rise

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