Believe Quote by Marion Nestle

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

— Marion Nestle

“One of the largest drivers of diet-related chronic disease is misinformation, and the playing field we face as consumers in our supermarkets is anything…

— Yoni Freedhoff

If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product…

— Michael Pollan

“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally,…

— Michael Pollan

“AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.”

— Michael Pollan

While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing…

— Margaret Cuomo

Health food would seem healthier if the people that sold it looked less unhealthy.

— Dov Davidoff

As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the…

— Michael Moss

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public…

— Nathan Deal

Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed…

— Lynne Rossetto Kasper

When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government…

— Anna Lappe

Individuals can make choices about their own health treatments, but it is critical public health decisions are evidence based and that consumers have appropriate…

— Metiria Turei