Selected Product: | What to Eat Paperback Edition: 1st Author: Marion Nestle Publisher: North Point Press Release Date: 2007-04-17 ISBN-10: 0865477388 ISBN-13: 9780865477384 List Price: $16.00 Average Customer Rating: | | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ISBN-10: 0143038583 ISBN-13: 9780143038580 List Price:$16.00 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto ISBN-10: 1594201455 ISBN-13: 9781594201455 List Price:$21.95 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) ISBN-10: 0060852569 ISBN-13: 9780060852566 List Price:$14.95 Real Food: What to Eat and Why ISBN-10: 1596913428 ISBN-13: 9781596913424 List Price:$15.99 Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture) ISBN-10: 0520254031 ISBN-13: 9780520254039 List Price:$16.95 |
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Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle’s What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as “radiant with maxims to live by” in The New York Times Book Review and “accessible, reliable and comprehensive” in The Washington Post, What to Eat is an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who “has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated by the day, and the straightforward, practical approach of What to Eat has been praised as welcome relief. As Nestle takes us through each supermarket section—produce, dairy, meat, fish—she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies. With Nestle as our guide, we are shown how to make wise food choices—and are inspired to eat sensibly and nutritiously.
Now in paperback, What to Eat is already a classic—“the perfect guidebook to help navigate through the confusion of which foods are good for us” (USA Today). All Purpose Guide | Customer Rating: | This is a good all purpose guide to nutrition, including and especially safety concerns. It doesn't just stop with "carrots are a good source of vitamin A, etc" but it goes on to address issues such as how food is processed, handled, and packaged, and how these considerations affect the actual desirabilty of eating those foods. I'd buy it in ADDITION to other nutrition books, not as a standalone. | Taking it all into account. | Customer Rating: | | Nestle's book takes on a different view than your average foodie book promoting organic and local foods. She factors in "animal suffering and economic degradation" (Dorothy Kalins, NYTimes Sunday Book Review "Eat Your Vegetables May 28, 2006). I agree with Nestle that you really do vote with your shopping basket. What you buy at the store is what you support in our economy. This is a really eye-opening account of food in America today. | Thorough | Customer Rating: | | This book was recommended based on interest in the book "In Defense of Food" which I loved. This book has the information that shows people are too hung up on balancing a diet, when eating FOOD is really what we need to focus on, fruits, vegetables, etc. that give individual bodies nutrients and energy without having to calculate and quantify all elements of food. | A must-have book. | Customer Rating: | | This book answers practically every question that today's confused American consumer could possibly have about food. It is valuable information, organized to be very user-friendly. Ms. Nestle cuts through the conflicting information that is available regarding so much of our food supply, and offers clear, sane guidance that will be a benefit to anyone who seeks it. | This book has a split personality ... | Customer Rating: | This is really two books that would have been better separated. The author takes us through a supermarket, showing us what to look for on the shelves and what various labeling means. Much of this information is very interesting (she has one of the clearest explanations of what a calorie is that I've ever read; she explains how mercury in fish becomes so toxic to humans). Unfortunately, even though the book is only two years old time has not been kind in other areas. She advises us that after going through a processing plant she has fewer concerns about pre-packaged salads and vegetables (oops!) and she still subscribes to the mostly-debunked link between dietary fat and heart disease (recommending nonfat milk [shudder]).
However, commingled with the useful information are rants about how politics have corrupted our food supply. Again, some of this is very interesting (for instance, due to the efforts of the sugar trade association, in the U.S. getting 25% of our calories from added sugars is considered okay; most other countries cap it at 10%). However, this information isn't helpful as you're wandering the supermarket; it belongs in a separate book and in fact can be found in her book Food Politics. That's where it should be, and removing this would have made the book a much more manageable length. |
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