Marion Nestle, an expert in food politics, travels the country talking about the scientific, social and economic factors that influence federal dietary guidance policies. Invariably after her speeches, people come up and ask her what to eat.
“There is public confusion about nutrition and health. The public is enormously confused about what to eat,” Nestle told a group of about 500 Monday night in the Union Theater as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series.