Food fighter

• Autores: Catherine de Lange
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3163, 2018, págs. 33-36
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I have been in the US for less than 24 hours when, against my better judgement, I decide to indulge in a food trend I have heard about from the other side of the pond: ice cream so low in calories that the marketing message encourages you to eat the whole tub in one go. For an ice cream addict, the promise was irresistible. Still, I know bingeing on any junk food--however low in calories--is unwise, and when I arrive at New York University to meet with Marion Nestle a few days later, I am unsure whether to mention my transgression. She quickly fell in love with teaching such a poorly understood subject because, she says, the research was so weak that her students had to think critically. I thought it would be a wonderful way to teach biology. And it was." That changed when obesity began to loom large over the US population