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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California studies in food and culture ; 3.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2013.Edition: Revised and expanded 10th anniversary edDescription: xxii, 510 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0520275969
  • 9780520275966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.8/5/0973 23
LOC classification:
  • TX360.U6 N47 2013
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.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 363.8/NESTLE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500031006

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.

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