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    What to Eat
    What to Eat
    What to Eat
    Audiobook20 hours

    What to Eat

    Written by Marion Nestle

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

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    Since its publication in hardcover, Marion Nestle's What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" in the New York Times Book Review and "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" in the Washington Post, What to Eat is an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who "has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

    How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated by the day, and the straightforward, practical approach of What to Eat has been praised as welcome relief. As Nestle takes us through each supermarket section-produce, dairy, meat, fish-she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies. With Nestle as our guide, we are shown how to make wise food choices-and are inspired to eat sensibly and nutritiously.

    Now available in audio, What to Eat is a classic-"the perfect guidebook to help navigate through the confusion of which foods are good for us" (USA Today).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9781977331540
    Author

    Marion Nestle

    Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of three prize-winning books:  Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, as well as Pet Food Politics. Visit her online at www.foodpolitics.com. 

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    • 5/5
      Food politics is certainly growing as an issue of importance, especially in more progressive circles. I highly recommend this book as an introduction into the topic. It walks the reader through a typical grocery store and describes many of the issues a curious person may wonder about. Is there really a difference between certified organic and just organic? what does it mean to say something is organic? What is the difference between trans fats, hydrogenated oil, vegetable oil and any other oil or fat? And what do those fats mean to me? Are things like granola healthy or not? What about yogurt? These questions and many many others are all answered in this book, written by a nutrition professor. I recommend it for everyone. Especially parents and adults concerned with diets and nutrition (which should be everyone!).
    • 3/5
      Author takes more of a consumer-oriented approach than a purely nutritional or dietetic approach.
    • 5/5
      I learned that Doritos are the devil's plaything. :)
    • 3/5
      nteresting but equivocal. A tour of the supermarket with a nutritionist who mostly advises that you do the research and decide for yourself. Worth a read, especially for foodies.
    • 3/5
      A frustrating book. The title is "What to Eat," but the content is more like "how the commercial food supply chain works." The introduction tells about how people come to the author confused about what to eat and looking for simplicity and clarity. This is followed by 600 pages that reads like an infodump of the author's research, focusing on controversial and unresolved issues, with remarkably little clarity. The introduction also complains about how there is in general too much focus on health benefits of individual ingredients, versus healthy, varied, overall diets, and the rest of the book then talks about ingredients one at a time. The author harps constantly on how stores and producers are trying to get you to spend more money on food (gee whiz, really?). Which is not really wrong, but doesn't actually help you figure out "What to Eat."The concluding chapter focuses mostly on what industry is doing now, and what industry could do to improve our eating situation, which puts things into perspective. This is not a consumer guide; it's a long essay about how the food industry works and ought to work, in which context it's an OK book, I guess, but the title and cover are completely wrong for the book.I admit to skimming a lot, but the book also does not appear to cover farmer's markets, CSAs, ethnic/speciality groceries, gardening, online ordering, etc., adding to the impression that it is a polemic against commercial food rather than an actual guide to how to eat well.
    • 3/5
      Not really what I was expecting. What To Eat spends equal time discussing what's on a food label and the politics of why as well as the actual nutritional values of foods. The author has a fairly heavy anti-government slant and I found it rather tiresome after a while. I was hoping for more a straightforward discussion of nutrition in "real life" products from a more objective point of view.
    • 5/5
      a must-read. an in-depth look into the reasons why foods are sold as they are, whether they are really healthy, and the determiners of price and availability. An eye-opening account into food trade organizations and their command over the politicians who pass laws about what is healthy and which foods (farmers) are subsidized by the government. It's scary once you start to realize that the biggest food companies and trade organizations are the ones who are able to pay politicians enough in order to keep their prices down, and to keep the public in the dark.
    • 4/5
      Most practical guide on eating "right." Nestle walks you through the supermarket, and doesn't expect you to be perfect.
    • 2/5
      A very useful guide to all of the bogus and not so bogus food claims you find on packaged food. She also reminds us that what to eat is not a mystery - we've known it for a really long time: whole grains, lots of fruits and veggies, and meat in small portions. This book was so full of info it reads more like a reference guide. I have to admit I didn't make my way through it, but it's still something I'll turn to when I get a quesetion.
    • 3/5
      I was rather disappointed with this book. It's fairly hefty with 600 pages, but does not deal with many issues in choosing food, like allergies. A lot of it reveals how many food companies are trying to mislead the public, but the guid doesn't really help you figure how to work around this.
    • 5/5
      A couple of years ago I realized my food choices were most likely connected to health problems I was having at the time. I wasn't eating a lot of sweets or junk food, but I lived off of pre-packaged, processed foods. I sought this book out to help me better understand what I was eating.This book is an extremely informative, objective presentation of nutrition and food facts. There are food politics and opinions included from the author, but she clearly lets you know which parts are her opinion. For example, she will say something like "Here are the facts about this food. I wouldn't eat this if I were you because of these reasons, but a lot of people do eat this for these reasons."This also appears to be one of the most researched books I've ever read. As you read it, you pick up on the fact that the author called tons of people, wrote hundreds of letters, and researched endlessly to find answers to questions she had. But it wasn't until I finished the book and saw the annotated bibliography with more than 400 sources at the end that I knew she was thorough.I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about what they're eating.
    • 5/5
      This is a much better book than I thought it would be but because it is so thorough in analyzing almost every item in the supermarket it is also lengthy. Marion Nestle is definitely in the organic and local food camp.