Food Politics
Subtitle: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9790520224659
Subjects: Consumer issues; Cultural studies; Dietetics & nutrition; Food manufacturing & related industries; Sociology; Moral and ethical aspects; Health Policy; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Nutrition policy; Food Science; Government & Business; Industries - Agribusiness; Political Process - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Food industry and trade; United States; Human Services; Food; Marketing
First sentence: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO eat for more than a century, and the history of such advice reflects changes in agriculture, food product development, and international trade, as well as in science and medicine.
Description: [In this book, the author] examines what she sees as the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional authorities. Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand.-Back cover.