Why Does Nutrition Advice Always Seem to Be Changing?

It can be hard to keep up with ever-changing guidelines. Marion Nestle shares a few principles to help steer you right.

Marion Nestle
Elemental
Published in
6 min readOct 9, 2020

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Everyone eats. Everyone can claim firsthand experience and expertise. Whose experience and expertise should you trust? “Mine, of course,” is my standard (slightly facetious)…

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Marion Nestle
Elemental

Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health, emerita, NYU. Writes books about food politics; blogs at foodpolitics.com, tweets @marionnestle.