Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle, Ph.D, M.P.H., is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from 1954-1959. 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.


Books in order of publication:

Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Greenbrae, California: Jones Medical Publications. 1985.

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2002.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003.

What to Eat. New York: North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 2006.

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2008.

Feed Your Pet Right (1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.). New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster. (2010).

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. (2012).

Guide to Food Politics. Rodale Books. 2013.

Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (And Winning). Oxford University Press. 2015.

Big Food : critical perspectives on the global growth of the food and beverage industry. London: Routledge. (2016).

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. Basic Books. 2018.

Let’s ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2020.

Slow cooked : an unexpected life in food politics. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2022.