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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
by Marion Nestle
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 480 pp., $29.95


"Get ready for Prozac" should be the subtitle of Marion Nestle’s new book, Food Politics. Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University, paints a sorry picture of how our current system of nutritional health policy has been unduly influenced by the food industry. Food scientists have been pawns in the game. In painful, depressive detail that shouts to its accuracy, Nestle describes the forces that have brought nutrition recommendations to their current standing.

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Margo Denke


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