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Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear [more...]  Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All After decades on the rise, obesity rates have stabilized among most groups of Americans, according to two CDC studies published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But rates remain high, and increased among the heaviest boys aged 6 to 19. With 17% of children considered [more...] Colbert Report, August 19 I was interviewed on the Colbert Report about sugar policy, of all things. U.S. sugar policy is so absurd that I did not think it could be satirized, but Colbert managed just fine. Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and Professor of Sociology at New York University was on the Colbert Report yesterday to confirm Stephen’s fear that there is a sugar shortage in America. Watch now: The Colbert Report Sugar Shortage – Marion Nestle www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes On September 10, blogger Jill Richardson interviewed Marion Nestle, author of Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (UC Press, August 2008), Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (UC Press, October 2007), and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (UC Press, March 2003). Below [more...] UC Press author and nutrition scholar Marion Nestle debuted her question-and-answer column in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Food section on July 16. In the column, Nestle responds to readers’ questions and comments about food and nutrition policy. Last week she addressed the question, “What is the most pressing nutrition issue today, and why?” According to [more...] Episode 5 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In July’s episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Marion Nestle, author of Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine and Nalini M. Nadkarni, the author of Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees. You may subscribe to [more...] |
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