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Food Politics : : how the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

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Introduction: the food industry and "eat more". Undermining dietary advice. From "eat more" to "eat less," 1900-1990 -- Politics versus science: opposing the food pyramid, 1991-1992 -- "Deconstructing" dietary advice. Working the system. Influencing government: food lobbies and lobbyists -- Co-opting nutrition professionals -- Winning friends, disarming critics -- Playing hardball: legal and not. Exploiting kids, corrupting schools. Starting early: underage consumers -- Pushing soft drinks: "pouring rights". Deregulating dietary supplements. Science versus supplements:"a gulf of mutual incomprehension" -- Making health claims legal: the supplement industry's war with the FDA -- Deregulation and its consequences. Inventing techno-foods. Go forth and fortify -- Beyond fortification: making foods functional -- Selling the ultimate techno-food: olestra.

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California studies in food and culture
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: xii, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0520224655

SUBJECTS
Nutrition policy.
Food -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Food industry and trade.