Marion Nestle Her name is pronounced like the English verb "nestle", not like the name of the Swiss food conglomerate, to whom she is unrelated. In 2011, "Forbes" magazine listed Nestle as number 2 of "The world's 7 most powerful foodies." Marion Nestle Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American academic. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from
Marion Nestle faculty in biology in 1975. Through this professorship, she was assigned a nutrition course to teach and she realized that there was no standardized nutritional requirements and kicked off her interest in nutrition. From 1976 to 1986, Nestle was associate dean for human biology and taught nutrition at the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986 to 1988, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the Surgeon General’s "Report on Nutrition and Health". In 1988, she was appointed Chair of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, she