What to Eat (Repost)
Marion Nestle "What to Eat"
English | May 2, 2006 | ISBN: 0865477043 | 290 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | May 2, 2006 | ISBN: 0865477043 | 290 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 mak