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Marion Nestle gave an inspiring speech at the National Wellness Conference this year on the Food Industry and her website is worth a visit!
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard 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. Her
degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public
health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002, paperback 2003) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
(2003, paperback 2004), both from University of California Press. In
2003, Food Politics won awards from the Association for American
Publishers (outstanding title in allied health), James Beard Foundation
(literary), and World Hunger Year (Harry Chapin media). Safe Food won
the Steinhardt School of Educations Griffiths Research Award in 2004.
Her latest book, What to Eat, published by North Point Press/
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2006, paperback 2007), was named as one of
Amazon.Coms top ten books of 2006 (Health, Mind, and Body) , and a
Must Read by Eating Well magazine; it won the Better Life
Award (Wellness) from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the
James Beard Foundation book award for best food reference in 2007.
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