Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
by Marion Nestle
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[In this book, the author] examines what she sees as the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional authorities. Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand.-Back cover.
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
2013, University of California Press
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Food politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health
2007, University of California Press
in English
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture)
October 15, 2007, University of California Press
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in English
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture, 3)
September 30, 2003, University of California Press
Paperback
in English
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
March 4, 2002, University of California Press
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"THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO eat for more than a century, and the history of such advice reflects changes in agriculture, food product development, and international trade, as well as in science and medicine."
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Synopsis: How does the food industry influence what we eat and, therefore, our health? What are the food industry's marketing methods and what is its relationship to the political system? What can be said about its use of political power to achieve profit goals? A bold, unprecedented behind-the-scenes expose of one of America's biggest and most powerful industries.
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