Recently the federal government released new guidelines for alcohol and food. Marion Nestle discusses those new guidelines and her lifetime's work as a nutrition expert and nutrition policy advisor. Marion is a Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She has a PhD in molecular biology and an MPH in public health nutrition from the University of California. Marion is a past senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of sixteen books, several of them prize-winning, most notably "Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health" (2002); "Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety" (2003); "What to Eat" (2006); and her new book, "What to Eat Now." Marion can be reached at Marion Nestle | NYU Steinhardt. Her books are available everywhere.
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