Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.
Nestle, Marion.
2002
TX360.U6 N47 2002 (Mapit)
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Title Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.
Author Nestle, Marion.
ISBN 0520224655 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Language English
Description xii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number TX360.U6 N47 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.8/5/0973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-438) and index.
Series California studies in food and culture ; 3
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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