How fresh is fresh? What tastes best? Which is healthiest? What’s the best value? When does it make sense to pay more? Are supplements good? Is this safe for kids?
How should you decide what foods to eat? As supermarkets have grown to warehouse size, this simple question has become complicated beyond belief. Fortunately, Marion Nestle – renowned for her sage advice on food and nutrition – is here to cut through the confusion and lay out what you need to know. In What to Eat, she takes us on a guided tour of the American supermarket and shows us exactly how to feed ourselves and our families wisely and well.
“When it comes to the increasingly treacherous landscape of the American supermarket, with its marketing hype and competing health claims, Marion Nestle is an absolutely indispensable guide: knowledgeable, eminently sane, and wonderful company, too.”
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“The industry wants you to believe there are no good foods or bad foods. Well, that’s not true. And I can’t think of anyone who knows the difference better than Marion Nestle.”
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“Meticulously researched, thorough, and indispensable – Marion Nestle’s What to Eat delivers on its title. It’s a reliable, riveting guide to the amazing truth about what we’re sold by the American food distribution system. Refreshingly rigorous and fun to read.”
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