Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim. Why calories count. From science to politics. University of California Press, 2012.
Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people around the world. Although calories are vital to health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, making them hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work in food, in the body, in society, and in the world. As they take readers through the issues that are fundamental to our understanding of food and diet, weight gain and loss, Nestle and Nesheim sort through the misinformation put forth by food manufacturers and diet promotors. They lay out the political stakes and show how federal and corporate policies have come together to create an 'eat more' environment. Finally, having given readers the necessary tools to interpret food labels, evaluate diet claims, and understand evidence as presented in popular media, the authors offer some candid advice about coping with today's food environment: Eat less. Eat better. Move more. Get political.
