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Marion Nestle
August 14, 2008
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard
Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public
Health at New York University in the department that she chaired
from 1988-2003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology
in NYU's College of Arts and Sciences and as a Visiting Professor
of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell
University.
Her research focuses on the
politics of food with an emphasis on the role of food marketing
as a determinant of dietary choices. She is the author of Food
Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
(2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
(2003). Her latest book, What to Eat was published in 2006.
Dr. Nestle's degrees include
a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition,
both from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1986-88,
she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of
Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon
General's Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member
of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS
1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer
Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention.
The recipient of many honors,
Dr. Nestle won the 2007 James Beard Foundation Award for Best
Reference Book for What To Eat and was named in the Foundation's
Who's Who in Food and Beverage in America for lifetime achievement.
She is an elected fellow of both the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Nutritional
Sciences. She was also named by Saveur Magazine as one of "The
Saveur 100 Favorites," and as an "Obesity Warrior"
by TIME Magazine. |
