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Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American molecular biologist, nutritionist, and public health advocate. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Emerita at New York University. Her research examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety, emphasizing the role of food marketing.
Through her work at NYU and her award-winning books, Nestle has had a national influence on food policy, nutrition, and food education. Nestle became a Fellow of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences in 2005. In 2019 she received the Food Policy Changemaker Award, as a "leader who is working to transform the food system".
In 2022, the University of California Press published Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics, a memoir.
Nestle was born to a working class Jewish family. Nestle's name is unrelated to the company Nestlé, and is pronounced Nes-sul.
She received her BA in bacteriology from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa (1959). Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology (1968) and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition (1986), both from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nestle has listed Wendell Berry, Frances Moore Lappé, Joan Gussow, and Michael Jacobson as people who inspired her.
Nestle undertook postdoctoral research in biochemistry and developmental biology at Brandeis University, joining the faculty as a lecturer in biology, 1971-1973. Being assigned to teach a nutrition course stimulated her interest in food and nutrition and using them to teach critical thinking in biology. She describes the experience as like “falling in love".
From 1976 to 1986, Nestle was associate dean for human biology at the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco. She lectured in biochemistry, biophysics, and medicine and developed a teaching program for medical students in nutrition.
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Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American molecular biologist, nutritionist, and public health advocate. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Emerita at New York University. Her research examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety, emphasizing the role of food marketing.
Through her work at NYU and her award-winning books, Nestle has had a national influence on food policy, nutrition, and food education. Nestle became a Fellow of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences in 2005. In 2019 she received the Food Policy Changemaker Award, as a "leader who is working to transform the food system".
In 2022, the University of California Press published Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics, a memoir.
Nestle was born to a working class Jewish family. Nestle's name is unrelated to the company Nestlé, and is pronounced Nes-sul.
She received her BA in bacteriology from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa (1959). Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology (1968) and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition (1986), both from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nestle has listed Wendell Berry, Frances Moore Lappé, Joan Gussow, and Michael Jacobson as people who inspired her.
Nestle undertook postdoctoral research in biochemistry and developmental biology at Brandeis University, joining the faculty as a lecturer in biology, 1971-1973. Being assigned to teach a nutrition course stimulated her interest in food and nutrition and using them to teach critical thinking in biology. She describes the experience as like “falling in love".
From 1976 to 1986, Nestle was associate dean for human biology at the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco. She lectured in biochemistry, biophysics, and medicine and developed a teaching program for medical students in nutrition.