Food politics :
Nestle, Marion.
Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan. - Revised and expanded 10th anniversary ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2013. - xxii, 510 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - California studies in food and culture ; 3. . - California studies in food and culture ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-486) and index.
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.
0520275969 9780520275966
Nutrition policy--United States.
Food--Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Food industry and trade--United States.
TX360.U6 / N47 2013
363.8/5/0973
Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan. - Revised and expanded 10th anniversary ed. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2013. - xxii, 510 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - California studies in food and culture ; 3. . - California studies in food and culture ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-486) and index.
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.
0520275969 9780520275966
Nutrition policy--United States.
Food--Marketing--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Food industry and trade--United States.
TX360.U6 / N47 2013
363.8/5/0973