![]() We eat many different foods in combinations that differ from day to day varying our food intake takes care of nutrient needs.” “To ask whether one single food has special health benefits defies common sense. She also explains why the very notion that any single food might have miraculous health benefits is absurd. Through her investigation into how money flows from companies and trade groups to labs, she shows how pervasive the problem is - and why it’s distorting how we think about health. In a new book, Unsavory Truth, Marion Nestle - a nutrition researcher at New York University, writer, and longtime crusader on conflicts of interest in food science - charts dozens of fascinating examples like this, from the likes of Hershey and Coca-Cola, to the Corn Refiners Association and the Royal Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Inc. This research, and the media hype it inevitably attracts, yielded a clear shift in the public perception of chocolate products that, are also, ahem, full of sugar and calories. Here at Vox, we examined 100 Mars-funded studies last year and found they overwhelmingly drew glowing conclusions about cocoa and chocolate - promoting everything from chocolate’s heart health benefits to cocoa’s ability to fight disease. Take chocolate: Over the past 30 years, Nestle, Mars, Barry Callebaut, and Hershey - among the world’s biggest producers of chocolate - have poured millions of dollars into scientific studies and research grants that support cocoa science. ![]() Turns out our beliefs about how nutritious these products are is increasingly shaped by scientific research dreamed up and paid for by major food companies and interest groups. Do they include antioxidant-rich chocolate bars? Or immune system-boosting juice? Or maybe “superfoods” like pomegranate granola bars? Start reading Amanda Little’s book, The Fate of Food, which examines the sustainable food revolution and what we’ll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world.Consider the foods you’d like to think of as healthy. ![]() READ IT FORWARD: Is the Future of Food Bleak-or Better than Ever? THE TIMES OF LONDON: The Fate of Food by Amanda Little The Fate of Food explores solutions to global food crisisįrom toilet to tap: Why our future water may be recycledĬan We Feed 10 Billion People Without All Becoming Vegans? USA TODAY: Lab-grown meat, GMOs, High-Tech Agriculture This excerpt from Amanda Little’s new book, The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, offers a peek into what it means to grow meat in a laboratory. ROLLING STONE: Would You Eat a Lab-Grown Duck Breast? Inside the Alternate Meat Industry The Most Delicious Foods Will Fall Victim to Climate Change How the climate crisis will change your plate in 2050 The climate crisis and the end of the golden era of food choice The Fate of Food Asks: What’s For Dinner In A Hotter, Drier, More Crowded World? How We Can Save Our Food from Climate ChangeĪmanda Little on What We’ll Eat in a Hotter, Smarter WorldĮxamining Climate Change’s Impact on FoodĮating Smarter In a Warming World: part of the Degrees Of Change series GPS with Fareed Zakaria: The Future of Food Will technology or tradition save the global food supply? Why not both?Ĭlimate Change Is Likely to Devastate the Global Food Supply.
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