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MICHAEL JACOBSON

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Michael F. Jacobson, who earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from MIT, is co-founder and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). CSPI focuses on nutrition, food safety, and alcohol policy, and it publishes the Nutrition Action Healthletter. Since 1971, Jacobson and CSPI have led efforts to win passage of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which requires nutrition information on most food labels, as well as laws requiring warning notices on alcoholic-beverage labels and setting a federal definition of "organic food." CSPI has also halted numerous deceptive food labels and ads. Jacobson has been especially concerned about junk-food advertising aimed at children, the nutritional quality of school meals, and the safety of food additives. Jacobson is author or co-author of Marketing Madness (Westview Press, 1995); What Are We Feeding Our Kids? (Workman, 1994); Cooking with the Stars (CSPI, 1993); Safe Food: Eating Wisely in a Risky World (Living Planet Press, 1991); Kitchen Fun for Kids (Henry Holt, 1991); The Fast-Food Guide (Workman, 1991); The Complete Eater's Digest and Nutrition Scoreboard (Doubleday & Co., 1985); Marketing Booze to Blacks (CSPI 1987); and other publications.

Michael Jacobson recommends: "Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is breathtaking in its scope. The author seeks to explain the whole course of human history by considering not famous leaders and major battles, but geography, natural resources, climate, immunity, and similar factors.

Culture Against Man by Jules Henry. This half-century-old book introduces readers to, among other things, the commercial forces that play such an important role in shaping personal development and our society. High-school students should all be required to read this book (along with the trade journal Advertising Age).

Night Comes to the Cumberlands by muckraking journalist Harry Caudill describes the coal industry's rape of the Appalachians. When I was in graduate school, this book helped stoke the fires of my social conscience (and impressed me so much that I drove down to Kentucky to learn a little more about that poverty-stricken portion of the country)."

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared M. Diamond W.W. Norton, 1997 (480 pages) Also available in paperback, Norton,1999, and audiocassette Culture Against Man Jules Henry Vintage Books, 1963 (495 pages) Out of print Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area Harry M. Caudill Little, Brown, 1963; reissued in paperback in 1974 (394 pages) Out of print

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