I wish I could do this one in Spanish, but it will be in English. The preliminary program for the meeting is here. Register for it here.
by Marion Nestle
Aug
17
2023
Need a healthy snack? Try this!
My distant* but dearly loved cousin, Michael Kravit, sent this from Taiwan. Seems like a really good idea.
I’m working on a book chapter on snack foods (for an updated edition of What to Eat) and I counted the number of feet of shelf space devoted to snacks—chips, crackers, cookies, toaster pastries, candies, etc—in the Ithaca Walmart: 4,100 linear feet, or 0.8 mile.
OK. Some of them are nuts or dried fruit. But the great majority? Mostly ultra-processed and highly profitable to their makers.
*Definition of a distant cousin: he’s the grandson of my first cousin, which I think makes him twice removed.