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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
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
Product Details
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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Ref
99-19
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 more
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 more