Marion Nestle

Professor/Writer/Blogger

Marion is Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she officially retired in 2017. She also holds courtesy professorial titles in the Sociology Department at NYU, and in two departments at Cornell University. Her research examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, chronic disease, and food safety with emphasis on the role of food marketing.

She is an author of 18 books, several of them prize-winning books.  Her most recent books are What to Eat Now (2025) and Sugar Coated (2026). 

She blogs daily at foodpolitics.com and her X (Twitter) was once considered to be among the top ten in health and science by Time Magazine, Science Magazine and The Guardian.