October 24, 2002
Marion Nestle to speak on ‘Politics of Obesity’
Dr. Marion Nestle, widely known lecturer and author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, will speak at the UW Health Sciences Center next week.
Her talk on “The Politics of Obesity: How the Food Industry Influences Food Choice and the Public’s Health” will be at 4 p.m., Monday, Oct. 28, in room T-747 of the Health Sciences Center. The event is sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Everyone is welcome.
Nestle has been professor and chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University since 1988. She has a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and a master’s degree in public health, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
From 1976 to 1986, she was associate dean of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, where she directed a nutrition education center sponsored by the American Cancer Society and taught nutrition to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians.
From 1986 to 1988, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services, with principal responsibility as managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health.
She has been a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the 1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the American Cancer Society committee that issues dietary guidelines for cancer prevention.
Nestle’s research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural and economic factors that influence development, implementation and acceptance of federal dietary guidelines.
The Food Politics book was published in March 2002; her next book, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism, is scheduled for publication by University of California Press in March 2003.
