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Marion Nestle



Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, is an American academic who promotes and teaches on healthy eating, public health, food studies, and nutrition. She speaks on the power of big companies and politics to convince us their products are healthy for our consumption and how to best discern for yourself what foods are going to be healthy and nutritious for you.

Marion Nestle
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What to Eat

How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated by the day, and the straightforward, practical approach of What to Eat has been praised as welcome relief.

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Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat.

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Marion Nestle - What to Eat Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility

October 3, 2009 - College of the Atlantic's food conference Food for Thought, Time for Action: Sustainable food, farming and fisheries for the 21st century.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBy one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States.

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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health.

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Superfoods Are a Marketing Ploy

Regardless of who issues them, guidelines for health promotion and disease prevention universally recommend diets that are largely plant-based, meaning those that include plenty of fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and nuts.

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Marion Nestle on Why the Low Carb Movement Is So Popular

Marion Nestle was a recent guest speaker at Dr. John and Mary McDougall's Advanced Study Weekend in Santa Rosa, CA.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.

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Marketing Junk Food to Kids - Marion Nestle

NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children.

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Marion Nestle, "Unsavory Truth"

Marion Nestle discusses her book, "Unsavory Truth", at Politics and Prose on 11/1/18.

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