Robert Shewfelt

Robert Shewfelt

Earlier this year, I was volunteering at my church with a food drop-off. While chatting with a fellow volunteer, I mentioned that I wrote a blog on processed foods. She responded, “Oh, about how bad they are for you?” I pointed out that we were collecting only processed foods.

Sadly, this encounter was not an isolated incident.

How can we best communicate food science to the general public? It is a question that has haunted me. We have a message to tell. We adhere to basic principles t…

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Robert Shewfelt, PhD, is a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and author of In Defense of Processed Foods.
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