A renowned nutritionist takes readers on a guided tour of the supermarket, explaining the issues with verve and wit as well as a scientist's expertise and a food lover's experience. She untangles the issues, decodes the labels, clarifies the health claims, and debunks the sales hype.
Marion Nestle writes passionately about the negative effects the food industry has had on the health of consumers. She contends that the rise in obesity in America is the direct result of the $33 billion a year spent by the industry for marketing--in other words, getting people to eat more. She also claims that many food-industry "experts"- ...
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, first published in 2002. Now in its second edition, "The Atlas of Food" provides an up-to-date and visually appealing way of understanding the important issues relating to global food and agriculture. In mapping out broad areas of investigation - ...
One of the first books to promote the Mediterranean diet, Jenkins's work was a bestseller when it was published 15 years ago. Bursting with good health and great flavors, this updated edition features more than 250 recipes that highlight one of the healthiest diets in the world.
Nestle, the author of FOOD POLITICS: HOW THE FOOD INDUSTRY INFLUENCES NUTRITION AND HEALTH, argues that ensuring that our food supply is safe is not just a matter of clean food processing, delivery, and distribution, but of politics. She describes how the influential food industries oppose safety regulations and deny accountability. She also ...
The 2006 James Beard Book of the Year is now available in paperback. Featuring a photojournalistic survey of 30 families from 24 countries and the food they eat during the course of one week, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.
"Taking Sides" presents current issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The pro and con essays represent the arguments of leading scholars and commentators in their fields.
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of "Food Politics", now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, tires, and toys. Nestle follows the trail of ...
Originally published to much acclaim in France, this scientific thriller, updated with a foreword by best-selling author Marion Nestle, tells of the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest incarnation. In gripping, nontechnical prose, Maxime Schwartz details the deadly ...
What we eat and drink, how our food is grown and processed, and where it comes from are vital concerns for our health, the economy, and the well-being of the planet. In the course of the past century our food and drink supply has increasingly been controlled by mega-corporations focusing on profit over good food. Our grocery shelves are loaded ...
Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist period, food emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures of socialist ideals of progress, equality, and modernity. By the late 1980s, the arrival of McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain epitomized the changes that swept across the socialist world. Not quite two decades later, ...
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