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Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan.

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Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan.
Author
Nestle, Marion
Publication
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2013.

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Pollan, Michael
Description
xxii, 510 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in addressing the nutritional dilemma facing the United States"--Science.
  • "An excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washington -- and their effects on consumers."--The Nation.
Series Statement
California studies in food and culture ; 3
Uniform Title
California studies in food and culture 3.
Alternative Title
How the food industry influences nutrition and health
Subject
  • Nutrition policy > United States
  • Food > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
  • Food industry and trade > United States
  • Social Marketing
  • Politics
  • Nutrition Policy
  • Food Industry
  • Nutrition Policy
  • Food Industry
  • Social Marketing > ethics
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0520275969
  • 9780520275966
OCLC
  • 818734566
  • SCSB-11744567
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Harvard Library