Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health » (REV)

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Author of Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 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 and Drug Administration. She is the author of Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (UC Press) and What to Eat .

"A courageous and masterful exposé."—Julia Child

"If you eat, you should read this book."—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

Nation

[A]n excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washington (and their effects on consumers. Let's hope people take more notice of it than they do of the dietary guidelines.

Preface
Introduction: The Food
Industry and "Eat More"

PART ONE Undermining Dietary Advice
1. From "Eat More" to "Eat Less," 1900-1990
2. Politics versus Science: Opposing the Food Pyramid, 1991-1992
3. "Deconstructing" Dietary Advice

PART TWO Working the System
4.
Influencing Government: Food Lobbies and Lobbyists
5. Co-opting Nutrition Professionals
6. Winning Friends, Disarming Critics
7. Playing Hardball: Legal and Not

PART THREE Exploiting Kids,
Corrupting Schools
8. Starting Early: Underage Consumers
9. Pushing Soft Drinks: "Pouring Rights"

PART FOUR Deregulating Dietary Supplements
10. Science versus Supplements: "A Gulf of Mutual
Incomprehension"
11. Making Health Claims Legal: The Supplement
Industry's War with the FDA
12. Deregulation and Its Consequences

PART FIVE
Inventing Techno-Foods
13. Go Forth and Fortify
14. Beyond Fortification: Making Foods Functional
15. Selling the Ultimate Techno-Food: Olestra

Conclusion: The Politics of Food Choice Appendix: Issues in Nutrition and Nutrition Research Notes List of Tables List of Figures
Index