Food Politics

Author: Marion Nestle
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0520224655
Category: Medical

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. Download Food Politics medical books for free.
In this engrossing exposA, 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 overefficient 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 very big business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly $900 billion in sales. They have stakeholders to p Get Food Politics our bestseller medical books.

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In this engrossing exposA, 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 overefficient 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 very big business They have stakeholders to p

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