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Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health
- Title
- Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan.
- Author
- Nestle, Marion.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 510 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- California studies in food and culture ; [3]
- Uniform Title
- California studies in food and culture ; 3.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-486) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The food industry and "eat more". -- Part 1: Undermining dietary advice. From "eat more" to "eat less," 1900-1990 ; Politics versus science : opposing the food pyramid, 1991-1992 ; "Deconstructing" dietary advice -- Part 2: Working the system. Influencing government : food lobbies and lobbyists ; Co-opting nutrition professionals ; Winning friends, disarming critics ; Playing hardball : legal and not -- Part 3: Exploiting kids, corrupting schools. Starting early : underage consumers ; Pushing soft drinks : "pouring rights" -- Part 4: 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 -- Part 5: Inventing techno-foods. Go forth and fortify ; Beyond fortification : making foods functional ; Selling the ultimate techno-food : olestra -- Conclusion: The politics of food choice -- Afterword: Food politics : ten years later and beyond -- Appendix: Issues in nutrition and nutrition research.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5885
- ISBN
- 9780520275966
- 0520275969
- OCLC
- 818734566
- Author
- Nestle, Marion.
- Title
- Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan.
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Edition
- Revised and expanded tenth anniversary edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; [3]California studies in food and culture ; 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-486) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5885