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Appetite for profit : how the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back / Michele Simon.
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Title:Appetite for profit : how the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back / Michele Simon.
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Author/Creator:Simon, Michele (Michele R.)
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Published/Created:New York : Nation Books, ©2006.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: TX360.U6 S57 2006
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects: Food industry and trade--United States.
Nutrition--United States.
Food habits--United States.
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Medical Subjects:Food Industry--economics--United States--Popular Works.
Food Habits--United States--Popular Works.
Food Industry--ethics--United States--Popular Works.
Food Preferences--United States--Popular Works.
Health Status--United States--Popular Works.
Nutrition Policy--United States--Popular Works.
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Edition:Trade pbk. ed.
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Description:xxii, 392 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:1560259973 (cloth)
9781560259978 (cloth)
1560259329 (pbk.)
9781560259329 (pbk.)
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Contents:Ch. 1. Anatomy of a food corporation : why we can't trust them
Ch. 2. Personal responsibility, energy balance, and other distractions
Ch. 3. Freedom from choice : distortions of all-American values
Ch. 4. Nutriwashing fast food
Ch. 5. Nutriwashing processed foods
Ch. 6. "Responsible marketing" to kids
Ch. 7. Exposing government complicity
Ch. 8. Co-opting the science
Ch. 9. Eating in the dark : nutrition labeling in restaurants
Ch. 10. Battling big food in schools
Ch. 11. Regulating junk food marketing to children
Ch. 12. Scapegoating lawyers
Ch. 13. bigger picture
App. 1. Anti-glossary
App. 2. Guide to industry groups and spin doctoring
App. 3. Myth vs. reality : nutrition labeling at fast-food and other chain restaurants
App. 4. Taking back our schools
App. 5. Protect your legal rights
App. 6. Resources for positive change.