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The food industry and nutrition -- A cautionary tale : drug company influence -- The unusual complexity of nutrition research -- How sweet it is : sugar and candy as health foods -- Promoting meat and dairy consumption -- Research on healthy foods: marketing, not necessarily science -- Coca-Cola : a case study in itself -- Conflicted advisory committees : then and now -- Coopting researchers : the American Society for Nutrition -- Influencing nutrition education and practice societies -- Justifications, rationales, excuses : isnt everyone conflicted? -- Disclosure-and its discontents -- Managing conflicts : early attempts -- Beyond disclosure : what to do? -- Stakeholders : take action

Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat. Yet, as Marion Nestle explains, these studies are more about marketing than science; they are often paid for by companies that sell those foods. Whether its a Coca-Cola-backed study hailing light exercise as a calorie neutralizer, or blueberry-sponsored investigators proclaiming that this fruit prevents erectile dysfunction, every corner of the food industry knows how to turn conflicted research into big profit. As Nestle argues, its time to put public health first. Written with unmatched rigor and insight, Unsavory Truth reveals how the food industry manipulates nutrition science--and suggests what we can do about it Read more...

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Names: Nestle, Marion, author.

Title: Unsavory truth : how food companies skew the science of what we eat / Marion Nestle.

Description: First edition. | New York : Basic Books, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018015889| ISBN 9781541697119 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541617315 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: FoodResearchMoral and ethical aspectsUnited States. | FoodMarketingMoral and ethical aspectsUnited States. | Food industry and tradeUnited States. | Nutrition policyUnited States.

Classification: LCC TX360.U6 N475 2018 | DDC 664.00973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015889

ISBNs: 978-1-5416-9711-9 (hardcover); 978-1-5416-1731-5 (ebook)

E3-20180925-JV-PC

Praise for
UNSAVORY TRUTH

What happens when one of the countrys great nutrition investigators follows the money in food and science? You get this riveting, provocatively-written book, which deftly explores how the processed food industry has deepened our dependence on its products by sponsoring and manipulating food research for decades. This book should be read by anyone who has been seduced by the words, New study shows which is all of us.

M ICHAEL M OSS ,
author of Salt Sugar Fat

Marion Nestle is a truth-teller in a world awash with nutrition lies of one kind or another. In this scintillating and eye-opening book, Nestle reveals how much of our confusion about food in modern times has been spread by the food industry itself, which passes off marketing as science and funds research designed to show that its products are harmless. Unsavory Truth is essential reading for anyone in search of hard facts about what to eat.

B EE W ILSON ,
author of First Bite and Consider the Fork

Soda Politics

Eat Drink Vote

Why Calories Count (with Malden C. Nesheim)

Feed Your Pet Right (with Malden C. Nesheim)

Pet Food Politics

What to Eat

Safe Food

Food Politics

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

To Charles, Rebecca, and Mal, of course

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I LOVE NUTRITION SCIENCE. O N MY FIRST TEACHING JOB, I WAS assigned to teach a nutrition course and it was like falling in love. To this day, I love the intellectual challenge of figuring out what we eat, why we eat what we do, and how diets affect our health. It is not easy to study these questions in the context of everything else that influences health, not least our genetics, cultural upbringing, lifestyle, income, and education. I am also endlessly fascinated by the way food choices relate to so many of the most challenging problems in societyhealth is only the most obvious. What we eat is linked to matters of poverty, inequality, race and class, immigration, social and political conflict, environmental degradation, climate change, and much else. Food is a lens through which to examine all those concerns. I love the complexity of food issues and the passion people bring to every one of them. But I do not love the way the food industry has added an unnecessary complication: engaging nutrition professionals in marketing objectives, sometimes against the interests of public health.

Unsavory Truth is about how food, beverage, and supplement companies (collectively, food companies) fund nutrition researchers and practitioners and their professional associations, with the ultimate goal of promoting sales. This book appears at a time when scandals created by such funding make front-page news. Let me plunge right in with an unexpectedand highly surrealexample of why the topics in this book should matter to all of us.

You may recall that during the especially contentious US presidential race of 2016, hackers linked to the Russian government stole a trove of electronic messages from Democratic Party officials and posted them on the WikiLeaks website. They also stole emails from people working on Hillary Clintons campaign and posted them on a new website, DC Leaks. International intrigue like this ought to seem light-years removed from food-industry funding of nutrition professionals except for one truly bizarre coincidence: the cache on DC Leaks included messages exchanged between an adviser to the Clinton campaign, Capricia Marshall, and Michael Goltzman, a vice president of the Coca-Cola Company. While working with Clinton, Marshall was also consulting for Coca-Cola and billing the company $7,000 a month for her services.

The Coca-Cola emails may have been collateral damage from Russian interference in the American election, but to me they were a gift. They bear directly on the major themes of this book, not least because I turn up in them. The hacked emails included a January 2016 message from the director of an Australian agency doing public relations for Coca-Cola with notes taken at a lecture I had just presented to the Sydney chapter of the Nutrition Society of Australia. I was then a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney affiliated with the bias-in-research group of Professor Lisa Bero, whose studies of corporate influence on research appear frequently in this book. The emailed notes on my lecturequite nicely done, actuallyname some of the people attending my talk, review its content, and advise Coca-Cola to monitor my future presentations, research, and presence on social media and also to keep tabs on Professor Beros work.

I vaguely remember someone telling me that a representative from Coca-Cola was at my talk but thought nothing of it. My 2015 book about the soft-drink industry, Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning), had just been published, and I assumed that someone from that industry was in the audience at every talk I gave. The stolen emails demonstrate Coca-Colas intense interest in the activities of individuals anywhere in the world who might question the health effects of its products.

The emails also reveal this particular companys pressures on reportersand their editorswho write about such topics. In 2015, Candice Choi, a reporter for the Associated Press (AP), was investigating Coca-Colas recruitment of dietitians to promote sodas on social media. This companys public relations staff had been working with dietitians for years to get them to place sponsored content that promotes how our beverages can fit within a healthy, balanced diet. Because the staff expected Chois article to have a cynical, negative perspective, they reached out to the APs editors to formally register concerns about the story, promising to continue to urge them not to run with the story. Really? Thanks to the emails, we now know something about how this system works.

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