[bksvol-discuss] Re: Book Request
- From: Anastasia Saridakis <anamatia81@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:13:28 -0800 (PST)
My library has it so if no one else wants it I'll scan it if you will edit.
Let me know
ANastasia
Natasha & Fossey <guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: My library doesn't
have this book or I'd scan it myself. I'd love to see What to Eat by Marion
Nestle in the collection. I'm willing to validate.
Here is what amazon has to say about it.
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 make. Nestle walks readers through every supermarket
section--produce, meat, fish,
dairy, packaged foods, bottled waters, and more--decoding labels and
clarifying nutritional and other claims (in supermarket-speak, for example,
"fresh" means most likely to spoil first, not recently picked or prepared),
and in so doing explores issues like the effects of food production on our
environment, the way pricing works, and additives and their effect on
nutrition.
What Nestle reveals is both discouraging and empowering. Through ubiquitous
advertising, almost universal food availability, the growth of portion size,
and unchecked marketing to kids, we?re encouraged to eat more than we need,
with consequent negative impact on our health. Knowledge is indeed power, and
Nestle's lively, witty, and thoroughly enlightening book--the work, readers
quickly see, of a food lover intent on increasing sensual satisfaction at table
as well as promoting health--will help its readers become completely cognizant
about food shopping. It's a must for anyone who eats and buys food and wants
to do both better. --Arthur Boehm --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Natasha
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