Dr. Marion Nestle, longtime NYU professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, with additional faculty roles at UC San Francisco and Cornell, is best known for analyzing the intersections of food, politics, and health, often exposing how government policy, corporate lobbying, and food industry marketing shape what we eat.
American Journal of Health Promotion: papers on misinformation — my latest
The True Health Initiative held its 2nd Annual Global Health Misinformation Symposium, in which I participated. The papers from the symposium have just been published in the American Journal of Health Promotion. They are available under the heading “Knowing Well, Being Well” on the journal’s site. All are open access. My contribution is here.
👉 Read the full paper in the American Journal of Health Promotion
Editor’s Key Takeaways
- Dr. Marion Nestle explores how misinformation, commercial interests, and politics influence nutrition research and food policy.
- The article highlights concerns about the “funding effect,” in which industry-sponsored studies are more likely to produce findings favorable to their sponsors.
- Nestle reviews the evidence surrounding ultra-processed foods and the ongoing debate over their role in public health.
- She examines changes to the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines and questions whether some recommendations reflect political and industry influences.
- The article argues that improving public health will require not only nutrition education, but also policies that make healthier food choices easier and more accessible.
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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).
