Marion Nestle

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

Nestle 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.

How I Ended Up Living in Ed Koch's Famous Greenwich Village Apartment

How I Ended Up Living in Ed Koch's Famous Greenwich Village Apartment

When hizzoner left an NYU-owned home after leaving office, one lucky professor took it over -- and she hasn't left yet. More »

The Potentially Transformative Year Ahead in Food Policy

The Potentially Transformative Year Ahead in Food Policy

Predicting a 2013 filled with soda bans and genetically modified salmon More »

Why Aren't Energy Drinks Required to List Caffeine Levels?

Why Aren't Energy Drinks Required to List Caffeine Levels?

We should be allowed to be more aware of what we're taking in. More »

Nutrition Labels on the Front?

Nutrition Labels on the Front?

Where we stand on stoplight labeling More »

Big Soda's Move to Hide Funding of Anti-Tax Campaign

Big Soda's Move to Hide Funding of Anti-Tax Campaign

As Richmond prepares to vote on a soda tax, does revealing funding sources prevent "effective communication"? More »

How Regulation Really Does Change Eating Behavior

How Regulation Really Does Change Eating Behavior

Why would a city government think that food regulation promotes health when any one of them is so easy to evade? More »

Today in Puerile Legal Foibles: We're VITAMINWATER®, Not Vitamin Water

Today in Puerile Legal Foibles: We're VITAMINWATER®, Not Vitamin Water

Lawyers for VITAMINWATER® dig up months-old articles about the company to fix a spelling error. More »

Better Regulations, Not Fancy Kitchen Tools, Are the Key to Food Safety

Better Regulations, Not Fancy Kitchen Tools, Are the Key to Food Safety

It's all well and good to check your food with a thermometer, but meat and poultry ought to be clean before you even leave the supermarket. More »

Thought the Senate's Food Stamp Cuts Were Bad? The House Version Is Worse

Thought the Senate's Food Stamp Cuts Were Bad? The House Version Is Worse

The House version of the farm bill would slash $16 billion from SNAP -- more than 3.5 times the amount proposed in the Senate More »

The Great Health Care Rip-Off of the 21st Century

The Great Health Care Rip-Off of the 21st Century

When you buy cigarettes and junk food, you wind up paying twice: once for the goods, and once again for the health problems the companies create but don't help fix. More »

2 New Reports on Pesticides in Foods, From Different Perspectives

2 New Reports on Pesticides in Foods, From Different Perspectives

It's hard to know if the small doses of pesticides we receive from fruits and vegetables are harmful. More »

Why the 'Consumer Choice' Argument Is an Automatic Win for Big Soda

Why the 'Consumer Choice' Argument Is an Automatic Win for Big Soda

Left to their own devices, people have little hope of resisting the daily bombardment of soda advertising on television, billboards, and the Internet. More »

What the Obamacare Ruling Means for Food Politics

What the Obamacare Ruling Means for Food Politics

The Affordable Care Act promises to bring better nutritional labeling to restaurant menus. More »

Can Where Your Calories Come From Tell How Much Weight You'll Lose?

Can Where Your Calories Come From Tell How Much Weight You'll Lose?

A lab-controlled study finds high-fat, low-carb diets to be effective in staving off weight loss. But how about in the real world? More »

How Junk Food and Sodas Ruin Kids' Teeth in Developing Countries

How Junk Food and Sodas Ruin Kids' Teeth in Developing Countries

Good dental care helps insulate Americans from junk food-related tooth decay. But in a country like El Salvador, where access to care is limited, it's a different story. More »

The AMA's Strange Position on GM Foods: Test but Don't Label

The AMA's Strange Position on GM Foods: Test but Don't Label

The American Medical Association's position on genetically modified foods doesn't make sense. More »

A Farm Bill Postmortem: The End of Food Politics as Usual

A Farm Bill Postmortem: The End of Food Politics as Usual

The Senate's passed its version of the thousand-page bill. So, now what? More »

Food Stamps: The Latest Casualty in Interest-Group Politics

Food Stamps: The Latest Casualty in Interest-Group Politics

Why the Senate voted down an amendment to protect SNAP, the federal food assistance program More »

Farm Bill Scorecard: How Did the Senate Vote Yesterday?

Farm Bill Scorecard: How Did the Senate Vote Yesterday?

Which amendments to the farm bill passed, and which ones failed? Here's a list to help you keep track. More »

Start the Countdown: The Senate's About to Tackle 73 Amendments to the Farm Bill

Start the Countdown: The Senate's About to Tackle 73 Amendments to the Farm Bill

A series of important votes will soon determine which stakeholders benefit the most from this year's agriculture bill. More »

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