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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

Marion Nestle

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Description for Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health Paperback. We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this title, the author reveals how the competition really works and how it affects our health. It illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 534 pages, 32 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 41 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States - enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over - has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more - more food, more often, and in larger portions - no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like ... Read more

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Publisher

University of California Press United States

Number of pages

534

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2013

Series

California Studies in Food and Culture

Condition

New

Weight

707g

Number of Pages

534

Place of Publication

Berkerley, United States

ISBN

9780520275966

SKU

V9780520275966

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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

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99-20

About Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. Author of Nutrition in Clinical Practice (1985), she has served as a nutrition policy advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and as a member of nutrition and science advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food ... Read more

Reviews for Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

"Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, [Nestle] has made a complex subject easy to understand."
New York Times
“The ironically named Nestle does for the entire food industry what Eric Schlosser did for fast food in Fast Food Nation—a scathing and sometimes shocking expose of an industry we have taken for ... Read moregranted. This award-winning book looks at how the sheer volume of food available in North America has created questionable marketing practices, to say the least.”
Toronto Globe & Mail
“A solid, important treatise. Taking the health effects as given, it details how food companies undermine public health and infiltrate institutions that are sworn to protect it. If, after Marxism’s demise, you need evidence of the pervasive complicity of government in the amassing of wealth by a few to the detriment of the many, look no further.”
American Prospect
“Nestle’s meticulous, nuanced account traces the connections between North America’s immense agricultural surpluses, industrial foods like infant formula and Hamburger Helper, the supersizing of fast foods, and declines in public health.”
Women's Review of Books
“In a country that is being targeted by a food industry that will make and market any product that sells, even to children, regardless of its nutritional value or its effect on health, Food Politics is required reading.”
Bloomsbury Review
“Nestle is simply one of the nation’s smartest and most influential authorities on nutrition and food policy.”
Sun-Sentinel
“Nestle covers more ground, wields greater authority, and has concrete, tough-minded recommendations for change.”
Seattle Weekly
"Food Politics is a book that deserves to change national and international attitudes, as Carson's Silent Spring did in the 1960s."
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
"Nestle berates the food companies for going to great lengths to protect what she calls "techno-foods" by confusing the public regarding distinctions among foods, supplements, and drugs, thus making it difficult for federal regulators to guard the public. She urges readers to inform themselves, choose foods wisely, demand ethical behavior and scientific honesty, and promote better cooperation among industry and government. This provocative work will cause quite a stir in food industry circles. Highly recommended."
Library Journal
"In her exquisitely researched book, Nestle details how the food industry’s tendrils have reached into every aspect of nutritionists’ work and are suffocating its public health goals. Food Politics provides rich case studies of how the industry infiltrates nutrition departments at universities and federal agencies and intermingles unabashedly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)."
Health Education & Behavior
"In the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, Nestle exposes the dark side of food. A life-giving substance, food can kill us, and Nestle never loses sight of the seriousness of this issue throughout the text."
Food Anthropology
“Food Politics is a well-researched, thoughtful, and angry book. Nestle is most eloquent in her analyses of the relationship between government and industry. . . . An invaluable addition to the literature.”
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