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Big Food's Real Appetites
Williams, Ian | May 6, 2002 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health," by Marion Nestle. Nestle goes on to demonstrate in the book that not only do food companies use traditional corporate checkbook clout with the U.S. Congress but also co-opt much of the scientific and nutritional establishment to aid in their efforts. The dietary guidelines Nestle refers to, were monumentalized in the famous "food pyramid" familiar to every primary school student. But the pharaohs finished theirs in less time than it took the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pilot its version past the army of lobbyists who resented the hierarchical implication that some foods were healthier than others.

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FOOD Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition & Health (Book); NESTLE, Marion; FOOD industry & trade; NUTRITION; UNITED States. Food & Drug Administration; UNITED States
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