What to Eat

What to Eat is more than a book about choosing healthy foods, What to Eat explains how the conflict between Book_whattoeat.jpgbusiness interests and consumer interests creates lots of confusion about nutrition. Marion Nestle, a respected nutrition professor from New York University, demonstrates how commercial, industrial, and political issues determine what constitutes our food supply and provides readers with a revealing look at the standard practices of government agencies, retailers, and food manufacturers that the complex world of food sales comprises.

Nestle wrote What to Eat with the consumer in mind and hopes the reader will use the information presented to make informed choices when buying food. The book is organized as a supermarket tour, an interesting and helpful format that allows the reader to more easily apply newly acquired knowledge when purchasing foods.

The public is frequently given advice to choose healthy foods, but people have little direction when it comes to navigating the supermarket and actually making these choices. In What to Eat, Nestle has readers envision themselves traveling down grocery store aisles, a technique that helps reinforce the information and makes it easier to remember.

I think that the reader will appreciate how the book points out that eating whole healthy food need not be expensive, if we learn to eat fruits and vegetables in season, substitute beans and grains for meat and of course regularly use GroceryGuide.com.

 

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Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H. - What to Eat