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Posted:  20 Nov 2008 03:24


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NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children.

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Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, gives a talk entitled What to Eat: Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility.

Nestle discusses the U.S. food system including supermarket strategies. She informs and advises the audience at the Chautauqua Institution's 2008 program about what and how to eat.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Posted:  20 Nov 2008 16:52
Is this why I don't see Ronald McDonald anymore. I miss that clown.
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