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What to Eat By Marion Nestle ( North Point Press )
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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How do we decide what foods to eat? In recent years, this simple question has become complicated beyond belief—as supermarkets have grown to warehouse size, and as the old advice to eat foods from four food groups has been overrun by questions about organic foods, hormones, pesticides, carbohydrates, trans fats, omega-3s, supplements, health claims, extreme diets, and, above all, obesity.
Fortunately, Marion Nestle is here to tell us what’s what—to give us the facts we need to make sensible choices from the bewildering array of foods available to us. With What to Eat, this renowned nutritionist takes us on a guided tour of the supermarket, explaining the issues with verve and wit as well as a scientist’s expertise and a food lover’s experience.
Today’s supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for sales with profits—not nutrition or health—in mind. Nestle walks us through the supermarket, section by section: produce, dairy, meat, fish, packaged foods, breads, juices, bottled waters, and more. Along
the way, she untangles the issues, decodes the labels, clarifies the health claims, and debunks the sales hype. She tells us how to make sensible choices based on freshness, taste, nutrition, health, effects on the environment, and, of course, price. With Nestle as our guide, we learn what it takes to make wise food choices
and are inspired to act with confidence on that knowledge.
What to Eat is the guide to healthy eating today: comprehensive, provocative, revealing, rich in common sense, informative, and a pleasure to read.
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How do we choose what to eat? Buffeted by health claims--should we, for example, restrict our intake of carbs or fats or both? Is organic food better for us?--we become confused and tune out. In supermarkets we buy semi-consciously, unaware that our choices are carefully orchestrated by sophisticated marketing strategies concerned only with the bottom line. That we should confront such persuasion is the major point made by nutritionist-consumer advocate Marion Nestle in her extraordinary What to Eat, an aisle-by-aisle guide to supermarket buying and thus an anatomy of American food business. "The way food is situated in today's society discourages healthful food choices," Nestle tells us, a fact that finds literal representation in our supermarkets, where food placement--dependant on "slotting fees," guaranteed advertising and other incentives--determines every purchase we make. Nestle walks readers through every supermarket section--produce, meat, fish, dairy, packaged foods, bottled waters, and more--decoding labels and clarifying nutritional and other claims (in supermarket-speak, for example, "fresh" means most likely to spoil first, not recently picked or prepared), and in so doing explores issues like the effects of food production on our environment, the way pricing works, and additives and their effect on nutrition. What Nestle reveals is both discouraging and empowering. Through ubiquitous advertising, almost universal food availability, the growth of portion size, and unchecked marketing to kids, we’re encouraged to eat more than we need, with consequent negative impact on our health. Knowledge is indeed power, and Nestle's lively, witty, and thoroughly enlightening book--the work, readers quickly see, of a food lover intent on increasing sensual satisfaction at table as well as promoting health--will help its readers become completely cognizant about food shopping. It's a must for anyone who eats and buys food and wants to do both better. --Arthur Boehm
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 "Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods." ( lgsells )
Marion Nestle's What to Eat is a scientific examination of the health claims that food manufacturers and marketers use to move products. Organized by supermarket aisle, the book covers every food product in the produce, diary, meat, fish, frozen, processed, baby and specialty food aisles. Nestle helps the reader decipher both nutrition labels and marketing claims such as `certified organic,' `fair trade,' and `American Heart Association certified.' She exposes the food industry's role in our national nutrition and food policy and roots out the truth the sound bite headlines for scientific studies on diet.
What to Eat serves up 600 pages of indispensable advice, but the author is also willing to sum it up quickly: "Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods."
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A Great Food Guide ( mdw3437 )
This book was informative and organized very well. I was impressed with how the author gave real examples of what she was able to find in grocery stores in her area. She gives the real facts on what terms like organic food, vegetarian fed hens, grass fed vs. grass finished, and sustainably farmed really mean. She's not preachy, either. In fact, she understands that many people can't afford to always buy organic. Her information on choosing fish was particularly helpful to me. If you read and liked "The Omnivore's Dilemma," you will probably like this book, although is more informational and has no background story.
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All I have ever wanted!
This is the book I have always wanted. The modern day guide to food that we all need -- I have friends that are nutritionists and scholars in the field and these are all the questions answered that I have been picking their brains about. Marion Nestle is honest and personal without being judgemental -- great information presented and an easy to read style. I love this book and have recommended it to many.
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"What to Eat" review
The book "What to Eat" by Marion Nestle spells out the current food controversies clearly and succinctly in plain English. The author lets you know what she thinks, and tells you when the science is unclear. It's good for everyone who has questions about food - and that should be all of us!
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very informative ( kanga94103 )
This thick book if FILLED with great info. It covers the gamit from buying bottled water to purchasing meat and fish. I thought I new a lot about nutrition, but this book has taught me otherwise and does so in a way that is easy to read and entertaining. Most importantly the information is applicable to everyone who shops for food at grocery stories be it healthfood stores or grocery chains. I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about what they or their children eat.
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