About

Marion Nestle is a Courtesy Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. She is associated with the College of Human Ecology and is based in the Office of 311 Savage Hall. Her contact information includes a phone number (607) 255-4058 and an email address marion.nestle@nyu.edu. The page indicates her role as a faculty member within the college, but does not provide additional details about her research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Sociology
• Business
• Biology
• Geography
• Public administration
• Nursing
• Food science

Selected publications

• Politics trump science in new US dietary guidelines

  BMJ · 2026-01-23 · 3 citations

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• Towards unified global action on ultra-processed foods: understanding commercial determinants, countering corporate power, and mobilising a public health response

  The Lancet · 2025-11-19 · 40 citations

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• Ultra-processed diets promote excess calorie consumption

  Nature Medicine · 2025-08-22

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• Policies to halt and reverse the rise in ultra-processed food production, marketing, and consumption

  The Lancet · 2025-11-19 · 51 citations

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• 13 Action Research and Social Engagement: Food Studies in Practice

  New York University Press eBooks · 2024-03-28 · 1 citations

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• Food Politics and Policy

  2024-07-16 · 3 citations

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  Abstract The food industry is a vast conglomeration of national and international companies that produce, process, manufacture, sell, and serve foods, beverages, and dietary supplements. Together, these companies generate close to $2 trillion in annual sales in the United States alone. To protect sales and profits, food companies use strategies that firmly link politics to food and food systems—everything that happens to a food from production to consumption and waste. Food politics refers to how governments of groups, cities, and countries make decisions affecting food systems and how they balance stakeholder pressures in making those decisions. Food policies are the means through which governments implement political decisions through food laws, regulations, administrative actions, and programs. Politics and policies are instruments of power over food production and consumption and over who profits or benefits from them. This power, however, is distributed unequally and inequitably, with large corporations—Big Food, Big Agriculture—holding far more power than individuals or groups acting in the public interest. Hence, politics.

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• The need to reshape global food processing: A call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit

  UNC Libraries · 2024-06-12

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  The UN Food Systems Summit is taking place later this year at a crucial time. Food systems are manifestly failing to enhance human health, social equity or environmental protection. One symptom is the pandemic of obesity and related non-communicable diseases with their vast consequences. As we show here, one of the main drivers of this pandemic is the transformation in food processing. In the modern, globalised food system, useful types of food processing that preserve foods, enhance their sensory properties and make their culinary preparation easier and more diverse, have been and are being replaced by deleterious types of processing whose main purpose is to increase profits by creating hyperpalatable and convenient products that are grossly inferior imitations of minimally processed foods and freshly prepared dishes and meals. The Summit has a unique opportunity to confront this calamitous change, and to recommend effective policies and actions to UN agencies and member states.

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• Foreword: Interdisciplinarity and the Making of a Public Intellectual

  New York University Press eBooks · 2024-03-28

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• Equitable Access to the USDA’s Food Assistance Programs: Policies Needed to Reduce Barriers and Increase Accessibility

  American Journal of Public Health · 2023-12-01 · 3 citations

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• Regulating the Food Industry: An Aspirational Agenda

  American Journal of Public Health · 2022-04-21 · 34 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• M. C. Nesheim

  Cornell University

  17 shared

• David W. Fry

  9 shared

• L. Liebes

  9 shared

• Lewis Jl

  Christie's

  9 shared

• Shiriki Kumanyika

  Drexel University

  9 shared

• Daniel G. Coit

  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  9 shared

• Nicholas Freudenberg

  The Graduate Center, CUNY

  9 shared

• Christiaan B. Morssink

  University of Pennsylvania

  9 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Nutrition

  University of California, Berkeley

  1970

• M.S., Public Health Nutrition

  University of California, Berkeley

  1968

• B.A., Government

  Smith College

  1965