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MARION NESTLE: the politics of food

Dec 18, 2025
1h 2m

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Marion Nestle is a leading American nutritionist, academic, and public health advocate who became a public figure at 66 with her book 'Food Politics'. Nestle is best known for exposing how food industry politics, and lobbying shape what people eat, and how nutrition science is used. Marion discusses her dietary habits, and gives her opinion on ultra-processed foods, and a critique on the food industry's marketing strategies.


learn more about Marion and read her blog Food Politics


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