Description: Further DetailsTitle: Food PoliticsCondition: NewEAN: 9780520275966ISBN: 9780520275966Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/14/2013Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 33mmItem Weight: 726gAuthor: Marion NestleContributor: Michael Pollan (Foreword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and HealthISBN-10: 0520275969Description: We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States - enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over - has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more - more food, more often, and in larger portions - no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like manufacturing cigarettes or building weapons, making food is big business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly $900 billion in sales. They have stakeholders to please, shareholders to satisfy, and government regulations to deal with. It is nevertheless shocking to learn precisely how food companies lobby officials, co-opt experts, and expand sales by marketing to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries. We learn that the food industry plays politics as well as or better than other industries, not least because so much of its activity takes place outside the public view.Editor of the 1988 "Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health", Nestle is uniquely qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests and influences. She vividly illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. When it comes to the mass production and consumption of food, strategic decisions are driven by economics - not science, not common sense, and certainly not health. No wonder most of us are thoroughly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. An accessible and balanced account, "Food Politics" will forever change the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. By explaining how much the food industry influences government nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those of nutrition experts, this path-breaking book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Technology & EngineeringBook Series: California Studies in Food and CultureRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Food Politics
Title: Food Politics
EAN: 9780520275966
ISBN: 9780520275966
Release Date: 05/14/2013
Release Year: 2013
Contributor: Michael Pollan (Foreword by)
Subtitle: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
ISBN-10: 0520275969
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Edition: 2
Book Title: Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Number of Pages: 534 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Regional & Ethnic / General, Industries / Food Industry, History, Health Policy
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Cooking, Political Science, Business & Economics, Medical
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Marion Nestlé
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
