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‘What to Eat Now’ And Navigating Healthy Foods

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The typical American supermarket carries more than 30,000 products.

There are nearly as many opinions about what items you should buy to maintain a healthy diet.

Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says changing how Americans eat is key to improving our public health — but some of his advice has nutritionists scratching their heads.

Throw in the influence of a multi trillion-dollar food industry, and the grocery aisles can become a very confusing place.

That’s where Marion Nestle comes in. She is one of our country’s foremost nutrition experts — not only on what we should eat, but about the invisible forces that shape our options.

Her new book is titled “What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters." We discuss her new book.

Why do we have so many choices when it comes to groceries? How can we cut through the noise of fad diets and get the nutrition we need each day?

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0:00.0

The typical American supermarket carries more than 30,000 products, and there are nearly

0:13.2

that many opinions about what items you should buy and how to eat them to maintain a healthy

0:17.7

diet.

0:18.7

So you call these protein power-packed bowls.

0:21.7

So let's walk me through what we need to do it.

0:24.1

I love intermittent fasting.

0:25.3

It's helped me and a lot of my clients.

0:27.4

Vegetable seed oils.

0:28.5

They're literally made in a chemical factory.

0:30.7

Peanut noodles, mushy berries into fruit leather, pumpkin seeds into a crispy snack,

0:35.5

chickpea water into marshmallows.

0:37.2

Swap out your salad for a burger, a juicy burger patty with maybe a little bit of cheese on it.

0:43.8

Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. says changing how Americans

0:49.1

eat is key to our public health. Yet some of his advice has nutritionists scratching their heads. They're on the

0:55.5

influence of a multi-trillion dollar food industry, and the grocery aisles can be a very

1:00.5

confusing place. That's where Marian Nessel comes in. She's one of our country's foremost

1:05.8

nutrition experts, not only on what we should eat, but about the invisible forces that shape our options.

1:12.0

Nessel's new book is titled What to Eat Now, the indispensable guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters.

1:19.3

She joins us after the break from New York City to discuss all things food.

1:23.5

I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. Stay with us. We'll be back in a moment.

1:32.9

Marion, welcome back to the program. Oh, it's great to be here. Now, Marian, in 2006, you came out with what to eat.

1:39.9

It's a comprehensive guide for consumers on how to choose nutritious foods, given all the mixed messages they were getting.

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