![]() ![]() If this basic human instinct - eating - seems more complicated than that, she said frankly, it’s the effect of food marketing. She went on to declare unapologetically how simple it all really is, referencing a list of food rules similar to Michael Pollan’s seven words of wisdom: Eat food. “The public is demonstrably confused about diet and health,” Nestle said. She then leapt ahead to the flip side of hunger’s coin: obesity. ![]() In stark contrast to crop scientist and previous series speaker Gebisa Ejeta, Nestle quickly presented these problems as having social, rather than technical, solutions: education, political stability, and access to clean water and safe food. With that, she launched into the energetic third lecture in the University of Washington’s food and environment series with an obligatory nod to the issues of hunger and malnutrition. Nestle, author of the seminal book Food Politics, is a food systems researcher at New York University who has been writing and teaching about these issues for the past 35 years, long before they entered the mainstream vogue. Her confession speaks volumes about America’s evolving (and obsessive) ideas surrounding food, nutrition, and public health. ![]() “Now I don’t think you can learn anything about how our food system works without understanding agriculture.” Marion Nestle Photo: New York University “At first I didn’t think agriculture had anything to do with food,” admitted renowned nutritionist Marion Nestle. ![]()
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