What You Need to Know About Food!

Marion Nestle has written some really interesting books about food. Marion is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University.
From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Her research focuses on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice.
She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002, paperback 2003) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bio-terrorism (2003, paperback 2004)
One of her most interesting and informative books is: What to Eat. Throughout her many lectures on various subjects, she is asked time and time again: “What food we should be eating?” She at first was surprised that this question was asked so many times. She decided to take a look herself at what was so confusing. This book’s purpose to help you objectively think about the food that you eat. In her book she examines each section of the grocery store and answers the questions we all ask about the food we buy. She was very surprised at how deceiving product packaging was and how much time it took her to figure out the nutritional labels on food. Considering she is well educated in nutrition, no wonder the rest of us are making bad choices.
I will be dedicating my Friday blog and maybe even an upcoming newsletter to her findings. They are so interesting and definitely will help all of us make better food choices!
Marion believes that we are so manipulated by grocery stores and food manufacturers that it is no wonder that we are overweight and unhealthy.
Next Friday’s blog will feature her take on grocery stores and how our buying patterns have been studied so as to make the layout of these stores a home run in food sales for those companies that can afford good product placement.
I hope you will “tune in” each Friday to learn more about her fascinating study.
Have a great weekend and Eat Well, Lose Weight and Be Healthy.