Marion Nestle, "Unsavory Truth"

Marion Nestle discusses her book, "Unsavory Truth", at Politics and Prose on 11/1/18.

In books including Soda Politics, What to Eat, and Safe Food, Nestle has promoted food safety and exposed the misleading claims of food producers, work that has earned her Bard College’s John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service and the Public Health Association of New York City’s Media Award. Her new study looks closely at the connection between the food industry and research into the health benefits of particular foods. Recent studies that tout chocolate as being good for the heart, or that claim yogurt prevents type-2 diabetes, have not been the result of independent inquiries, but have been paid for by the products’ manufacturers. Showing these “studies” are less about nutrition than about marketing, Nestle suggests ways to initiate stronger food policy laws and stop the industry from manipulating research.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, emerita, at New York University, and Visiting Professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell. She has a PhD in molecular biology and an MPH in public health nutrition from UC Berkeley. She lives in New York City.

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