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Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle is professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and the author of Food Politics, Safe Food, What to Eat, and Pet Food Politics. More

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She is the author of three prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition, 2007), Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her most recent book is Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat. She writes the Food Matters column for The San Francisco Chronicle and blogs almost daily at Food Politics.
Weekend Reading: Food as an Art

Weekend Reading: Food as an Art

Reading picks for when you have a spare moment.… More »

Shouldn't We Do Something About the Nation's Obesity Problem?

Shouldn't We Do Something About the Nation's Obesity Problem?

A new series does a fantastic job explaining how America got fat, but doesn't attempt to galvanize changes to the food system.… More »

Why You Shouldn't Eat Cheap Sushi

Why You Shouldn't Eat Cheap Sushi

As sushi has gone mainstream, lower cost suppliers have come into the market offering fishy products.… More »

The 'Cupcake Wars': Massachusetts vs. Bake Sales

The 'Cupcake Wars': Massachusetts vs. Bake Sales

Even small changes to school regulations can cause a massive uproar.… More »

Superweeds: A Long-Predicted Problem for GM Crops Has Arrived

Superweeds: A Long-Predicted Problem for GM Crops Has Arrived

After a decade of intensive genetically modified plant cultivation, weeds have emerged that are resistant to the most popular herbicide.… More »

FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Another Iffy Weight-Loss Drug

FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Another Iffy Weight-Loss Drug

Pharmaceutical companies are rushing to produce new weight loss drugs. But some of them come along with alarming side effects.… More »

Is America's Food Safety System At Risk for a Terrorist Attack?

Is America's Food Safety System At Risk for a Terrorist Attack?

According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States' food supply isn't prepared for a major disaster.… More »

The Food and Drug Administration's Expanding Global Reach

The Food and Drug Administration's Expanding Global Reach

The globalization of food and public health means the FDA must be everywhere at once.… More »

Lax Pet Food Safety Regulations Put Humans at Risk

Lax Pet Food Safety Regulations Put Humans at Risk

A dog food contamination scare isn't just problematic for your pets -- they also endanger you.… More »

Tuna Scrape: The Food Safety Risk Lurking in Supermarket Sushi

Tuna Scrape: The Food Safety Risk Lurking in Supermarket Sushi

As sushi's gone mainstream, the supply of raw fish has expanded beyond the traditional cuts to a new product called "scrape."… More »

2 New Books That Will Appeal to Your Inner Chef and Cheese Lover

2 New Books That Will Appeal to Your Inner Chef and Cheese Lover

These scrumptious reads are worth your time.… More »

What the FDA Promises to Do About Obesity Over the Next 5 Years

What the FDA Promises to Do About Obesity Over the Next 5 Years

Marion Nestle takes a close look at the FDA's goals around giving consumers more information about the food that they are eating.… More »

How Researchers Came Up With Nutrition Requirements (It's More Interesting Than You Think)

How Researchers Came Up With Nutrition Requirements (It's More Interesting Than You Think)

"Volunteers," by which we mean prisoners, were deprived of nutrients and then given the bare minimum they needed to be restored to health.… More »

Access to Healthier Foods Alone Won't Fix Our Obesity Problem

Access to Healthier Foods Alone Won't Fix Our Obesity Problem

Two new studies question the link between food deserts in low-income areas and obesity, but the story is a whole lot more complicated than putting grocery stores in poor neighborhoods.… More »

How the White House Wobbled on Childhood Obesity

How the White House Wobbled on Childhood Obesity

Despite Michelle Obama's high-profile child obesity campaign, the White House hasn't managed to change the nation's kids' diets.… More »

What You Need to Know About Mad Cow Disease

What You Need to Know About Mad Cow Disease

Now that the disease has been detected in an American cow, Marion Nestle takes stock of what we know about bovine spongiform encephalopathy.… More »

'But I Can Eat Anything!': The Case for Developing Healthy Habits in College

'But I Can Eat Anything!': The Case for Developing Healthy Habits in College

While young bodies seem to have a miraculous ability to keep pounds off, the lifestyle choices you make as a young adult can set you up for a healthier life later.… More »

Where Are We on BPA?

Where Are We on BPA?

The FDA continues to hedge its bets on the controversy over the chemical, which is used to make certain types of clear plastics.… More »

Do We Need Better Advice About Eating Well? I Vote Yes

Do We Need Better Advice About Eating Well? I Vote Yes

While we get a lot of advice about what to eat, what people need to hear is actually quite simple.… More »

The Exceedingly Strange World of Federal Crop Insurance Subsidies

The Exceedingly Strange World of Federal Crop Insurance Subsidies

The United States spends an obscene amount on crop insurance. Will the 2012 farm bill do anything about it?… More »

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