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Later On (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Marion Nestle has a good response to Jared Diamond’s faith in big business: I greatly admire the work of Jared Diamond. His book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies, is as clear an explanation as you will ever get of how the inequitable distribution of favorable geography, climate, and natural resources affects the [...]
Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
First, the laugh for the day. Nancy Peterson is drawing names for door prizes and one of the prizes is a 15-minute reading from a cat communicator. Amy Shojai, president of CWA, pipes up: “I don’t want to know what my cat thinks.” Laughter all around. Marion starts by telling how she, a human nutritionist who [...]
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
After writing Nestle Corp Opens Retail Store in Bronx: Sellin Tap Water to the Poor by best friend, Z (who I met in one of Anthropology courses long ago), chimed in to tell me about a book - Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle (yes, the author's last name is...
The Tracing Paper (Free subscription) | yesterday
London 2012 publishes food vision, pledging to "serve best of British food at the Games" & "sustainable" too http://j.mp/8gMYad but… # Sponsors hold sway over Olympic food: all branded food from McDonald's, all branded soft drinks from Coca Cola http://j.mp/4NRxkl # Jared Diamond: will big business (Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola..) save the earth? http://j.mp/85afxG Marion...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Tom Laskawy Still smarting over the industry’s shenanigans over the “Smart Choices” label, the FDA has decided to pick up the pace of change. Marion Nestle dug up a set of proposed new front of package nutrition labels that the FDA is studying and one of which may ultimately get the agency’s final approval. Here they are: My faves are the “Nutrition Tips”...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers' questions in this column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with Marion Nestle in the subject line. Q: It's great that San Francisco City...
La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... Aves), 1st Floor. Please note new location. SUBWAYS: F, L, or V to 14th St. - 6th Avenue Speakers: Marion Nestle, Peter Pringle, and Bryan Walsh.
Well (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... and your once-healthy snack turns into a health offender.“The issue here is quantity,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. “One of those large tubs is three-fourths of a day’s calories.” Even the “healthiest” sample of popcorn tested, a small size from AMC containing 6 cups of popcorn, had 370 calories, enough to justify sharing with a friend and eating...
Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... community activist and education professor William Ayers, and nutritionist and food activist Marion Nestle, among others. Additional programming covers every angle of eco-friendliness, including a sustainable food fair, hemp fashion show, and opportunities to make a real difference by participating in environmental service projects around the Bay. Whether you attend one day or all...
Entropy Production (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I made a comment on my last post about the paleolithic principle on the notion of, "vegetarians who eat meat." I had to laugh when I read this post on TheAtlantic.com by Marion Nestle, "Are Vegetarian Diets Healthy?" A quote that illustrates the funny:But before getting into all this, there is the pesky problem of definition. What, exactly, is a vegetarian? As it happens,...
Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... So, I was mulling over the wording of the alert when an email popped into my inbox, cc’d to Marion Nestle. It was a reader, asking if either of us had any thoughts on the fact that Wysong Pet Food is saying that they didn’t issue an press release about their ongoing pet food recall because “ the matter was of small enough consequence that we have even been told by the FDA that a news...
Healthy Child Healthy World Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... no? Here’s a chance for the FDA to fix an old mistake and give consumers a real choice. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition,...
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
If you eat a variety of foods within and among groups – meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables, and grains – you don’t have to worry about nutritional details. That’s the word from a self-styled “nutrition academic” and you might think, as I do, that that’s all you need to know. But if you’re interested in some of the details, Marion Nestle’s post Are vegetarian diets OK? is well worth spending...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers' questions in this column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with Marion Nestle in the subject line.
Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... will keep a kid from getting swine flu, or from catching a cold, doesn't make sense," says Marion Nestle, nutrition professor at New York University. "Yes, these nutrients are...
