Sugar Coated, Dr. Marion Nestle, Healthy Food, Junk Food, and Food Politics

Dr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she officially retired in September 2017.  She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky (2012) and from the City University of New York's Macaulay Honors College (2016). In 2023, she was awarded The Edinburgh Medal (for science and society). She is the author of "What to Eat Now, the indespensible guide to good food, how to find it, and whay it matters," and "Sugar Coated, unboxing the hidden forces shaping America's favorite breakfast food," and many other books. We talk about her education, reading, breakfast, cereal, her book "Sugar Coated," milk, the business of food, the obesidy epidemic, Reagan deregulation and its effect on the food industry, lobbying, food policy in government, the cyclospora outbreak, the American Dairy Association, osteoporosis, what to avoid, cannabis edibles, dogs that eat marijuana, artificial flavors and colors, Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs, ultra-processed food, reading the ingredient list, fish, and more. Links are on the podcast website Support the show through Patreon