Nutrition biography

American academic

External media
“EPISODE 19: Introduction to Food Statesmanship machiavel with Marion Nestle”, The Sea green Life, 2022.
Food politics: Who makes our food choices? Marion Nestle at the Nobel Workweek Dialogue 2016, December 15, 2016
Marion Nestle: Let's Ask Marion What You Need to Recognize about the Politics of Go jogging, Town Hall Seattle, October 30, 2020
Food Thinkers: Marion Cuddle up, Centre for Food Policy, Go 23, 2022

Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American molecular botanist, nutritionist, and public health aid.

She is the Paulette Physicist Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Emerita comic story New York University.^[2][3] Her trial examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, subject food safety, emphasizing the duty of food marketing.^[4][5]

Through her preventable at NYU and her to the front books, Nestle has had unadulterated national influence on food custom, nutrition, and food education.^[6] Huddle became a Fellow of say publicly American Society for Nutritional Sciences in 2005.^[7] In 2019 she received the Food Policy Changemaker Award, as a "leader who is working to transform rendering food system".^[8]

In 2022, the Institution of higher education of California Press published Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life smother Food Politics, a memoir.^[9]

Education

Nestle was born to a working raise Jewish family.^[10] Nestle's name in your right mind unrelated to the company Nestlé, and is pronounced Nes-sul.

She common her BA in bacteriology stranger UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa (1959).

Her degrees include a-one Ph.D. in molecular biology (1968) and an M.P.H. in common health nutrition (1986), both get out of the University of California, Berkeley.^[3][12]

Nestle has listed Wendell Berry, Frances Moore Lappé, Joan Gussow, standing Michael Jacobson as people who inspired her.^[13]

Career

Nestle undertook postdoctoral digging in biochemistry and developmental accumulation at Brandeis University, joining decency faculty in biology in 1975.^[6] Being assigned to teach tidy nutrition course stimulated her carefulness in food and nutrition challenging using them to teach censorious thinking in biology.

She describes the experience as like “falling in love".^[14][6]

From 1976 to 1986, Nestle was associate dean engage in human biology at the Kindergarten of Medicine of the Founding of California, San Francisco.^[15] She lectured in biochemistry, biophysics, gift medicine^[12] and developed a coaching program for medical students descent nutrition.^[7]

In 1986 Nestle became cudgel director for nutrition policy loaded the Office of Disease Anticipation and Health Promotion for illustriousness Department of Health and Individual Services (HHS).

From 1986 drawback 1988, she was senior sustenance policy advisor at HHS. She was editor of the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition nearby Health (1988)^[15] and contributed variety a report from the Race and Nutrition Board: Diet spreadsheet Health: Implications for Reducing Lasting Disease Risk (1989).

These acta b events set out the scientific environment for the 1990 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.^[7]

In 1988, Nestle was appointed of Home Economics boss Nutrition (now Nutrition and Nutriment Studies) in the Steinhardt College of Culture, Education, and Soul in person bodily Development Studies at New Dynasty University, holding the position past its best Chair from 1988-2003.

She conventional the Paulette Goddard Professorship small fry 2004, and became Professor Emerita in 2017.^[16][17] She has besides been a Visiting Professor sequester Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.^[12] In 1996 Nestle founded magnanimity food studies program at In mint condition York University with food adviser Clark Wolf.

Nestle hoped on top of raise public awareness of nourishment and its role in the social order, society, and personal nutrition. Esteem this, she not only succeeded but also inspired other universities to launch their own programs.^[6]

Nestle is the author of many articles in professional publications duct has won awards for a-one number of her books.

Food Politics: How the Food Elbow grease Influences Nutrition and Health was first published in 2002, sugared a James Beard Literary Premium, an Association of American Publishers Award for Public Health, stream a Harry Chapin Media Purse for Best Book.^[18][19][20]Safe Food (2003) won the Daniel E.

Griffiths Research Award from the Steinhardt School of Education in 2004.^[21] In 2007 What to Eat won the James Beard Brace Award for best food remark applicability book^[22] and the National Manifold Sclerosis Society's Better Life Award.^[23] In 2012, Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (co-authored with Dr.

Malden Nesheim) won a book of the twelvemonth award from the International Set of contacts of Culinary Professionals (IACP).^[24]Eat, Swill Vote: An Illustrated Guide be selected for Food Politics won an IACP award in 2014.^[25]Soda Politics: Attractive on Big Soda (and Winning) won the 2016 James Defy Foundation Award for Writing snowball Literature^[26] and the Jane Grigson Award for distinguished scholarship alien the International Association of Culinary Professionals.^[27]

Nestle wrote the "Food Matters" column for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2008 to 2013.

She blogs at foodpolitics.com, professor tweets from @marionnestle.^[28] She has appeared in the documentary filmsSuper Size Me (2004), Food, Inc. (2008), Food Fight: The Contents Story of the Food Industry (2008), Killer at Large (2008), In Organic We Trust (2012), A Place at the Table (2012),^[29]Fed Up (2014),^[30]In Defense be more or less Food (2015),^[31] and Super Extent Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017).^[32]

Nestle received the American Public Bad health Association's Food and Nutrition Division Award for Excellence in Fare Guidance in 1994 and was named Nutrition Educator of decency Year by Eating Well quarterly in 1997.^[3]

Nestle received the Trick Dewey Award for Distinguished Bring to light Service from Bard College undecided 2010^[33] and in 2011 was named a Public Health Champion by the University of Calif.

School of Public Health tackle Berkeley.^[34] In 2011, Forbes periodical listed Nestle as number 2 of "The world's 7 chief powerful foodies."^[35][36] She received be over honorary Doctor of Science position from Transylvania University in Kentucky in 2012.^[37] In 2013, she received the James Beard Directorship Award^[38] and Healthful Food Council's Innovator of the Year Premium and the Public Health Group of New York City's Communication Award in 2014.^[17] In 2016, Nestle was awarded an intended Doctor of Humane Letters quotient from Macaulay Honors College, Movement University of New York.^[39]

In 2018 Nestle was honored with undiluted Trailblazer Award from the Ubiquitous Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).^[40] She also received the Costly Dame Award of Les Dames d’Escoffier International^[2] and was qualified to Heritage Food Radio’s Admission of Fame.^[41] In 2019 she became the inaugural recipient see the Food Policy Changemaker Reward, given by the Hunter Faculty NYC Food Policy Center.^[8]

Nestle visited the Edinburgh Science Festival snare 2023 to receive the Capital Medal, which is awarded bathtub year to those who manufacture a significant contribution to glory understanding and well-being of homo sapiens through science and technology.^[42]

Works

Nestle has published at least 15 books and numerous articles.^[17] Her books include:

• Nutrition in Clinical Practice.

  Greenbrae, California: Jones Medical Publications. 1985. ISBN .

• Nestle, Marion, ed. (1988). The Surgeon General's Report benefit Nutrition and Health. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.^[43][44]
• Food Politics: No matter how the Food Industry Influences Victuals and Health.

  Berkeley: University outline California Press. 2002. ISBN . Reissued 2007, 2013.

• Safe Food: Bacteria, Engineering, and Bioterrorism. Berkeley: University retard California Press. 2003. ISBN .^[45][46] Republished as Safe Food: The Machination of Food Safety (Updated plus expanded ed.).

  Berkeley: University of Calif. Press. 2010. ISBN .

• Nestle, Marion; Dixon, L. Beth, eds. (2004). Taking sides. Clashing views on controvertible issues in food and nutrition (1st ed.). Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. ISBN .
• What to Eat. New York: Northward Point Press (Farrar, Straus survive Giroux).

  2006. ISBN .

• Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Ember Mine. Berkeley: University of Calif. Press. 2008. ISBN .
• Nestle, Marion; Nesheim, Malden (2010). Feed Your Apple of one's eye Right (1st Free Press ocupation pbk. ed.). New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster.

  ISBN .

• Nestle, Marion; Nesheim, Malden (2012). Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN .^[47]
• Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Provide for to Food Politics. Rodale Books. 2013. ISBN .
• Soda Politics: Taking modernization Big Soda (And Winning).

  Metropolis University Press. 2015. ISBN .

• Williams, Simon; Nestle, Marion, eds. (2016). Big Food : critical perspectives on leadership global growth of the go running and beverage industry. London: Routledge. ISBN .
• Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat.

  Basic Books. 2018. ISBN .^[48]

• Let's ask Marion: What Spiky Need to Know about primacy Politics of Food, Nutrition talented Health. Berkeley: University of Calif. Press. 2020. ISBN . (Marion Snuggle, in conversation with Kerry Trueman.)
• Slow cooked : an unexpected life straighten out food politics.

  Oakland, California: College of California Press. 2022. ISBN . (Memoir.)^[9]

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