Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nestle, Marion
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Series:	California studies in food and culture ; 3
Subjects:	Nutrition policy > United States. Food > Marketing > Moral and ethical aspects > United States. Food industry and trade > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the food industry and "eat more". Undermining dietary advice. From "eat more" to "eat less," 1900-1990
Politics versus science: opposing the food pyramid, 1991-1992
"Deconstructing" dietary advice
Working the system. Influencing government: food lobbies and lobbyists
Co-opting nutrition professionals
Winning friends, disarming critics
Playing hardball: legal and not
Exploiting kids, corrupting schools. Starting early: underage consumers
Pushing soft drinks: "pouring rights"
Deregulating dietary supplements. Science versus supplements:"a gulf of mutual incomprehension"
Making health claims legal: the supplement industry's war with the FDA
Deregulation and its consequences
Inventing techno-foods. Go forth and fortify
Beyond fortification: making foods functional
Selling the ultimate techno-food: olestra.

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