Research Catalog

Title

Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.

Author

Nestle, Marion.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xii, 457 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

California studies in food and culture ; 3

Subject

• Nutrition policy > United States
• Food > Marketing > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
• Food industry and trade > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-438) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the food industry and "eat more". Undermining dietary advice. From "eat more" to "eat less," 1900-1990 -- Politics versus science: opposing the food pyramid, 1991-1992 -- "Deconstructing" dietary advice. Working the system. Influencing government: food lobbies and lobbyists -- Co-opting nutrition professionals -- Winning friends, disarming critics -- Playing hardball: legal and not. Exploiting kids, corrupting schools. Starting early: underage consumers -- Pushing soft drinks: "pouring rights". Deregulating dietary supplements. Science versus supplements:"a gulf of mutual incomprehension" -- Making health claims legal: the supplement industry's war with the FDA -- Deregulation and its consequences. Inventing techno-foods. Go forth and fortify -- Beyond fortification: making foods functional -- Selling the ultimate techno-food: olestra.

Call Number

JBE 02-2079

ISBN

0520224655 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001027678

OCLC

46884159

Author

Nestle, Marion.

Title

Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Series

California studies in food and culture ; 3

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-438) and index.

Research Call Number

JBE 02-2079

JFE 05-4107