ZOOM DISCUSSION: Marion Nestle, CSPI and Sen. Myrie Talk Unhealthy Food Amid Topsy-Turvy Federal Admin

CSPI, food and health experts will unpack research findings on predatory food marketing and detail legislative solutions to protect New York families

ALBANY, NY (01/16/2026) (readMedia)-- Next Wednesday, January 21, food policy leaders and health experts Marion Nestle and Lisa Powell will join the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Senator Zellnor Myrie for a virtual roundtable launching a new healthy eating campaign. Experts will also explore Albany's Predatory Marketing Prevention Act (PMPA) and Sweet Truth Act as legislative solutions to protect children's wellbeing, and help New York families make better informed eating choices.

Compared to nutrition education, each year, companies spend nearly $14 billion aggressively marketing mainly unhealthy foods and beverages - which often target Black and Latino children in communities where fast-food outlets dominate. In New York, communities of color continue to battle higher risk of developing preventable health conditions like diabetes, with Black children seeing 75% more fast food ads than their white peers. The PMPA and Sweet Truth Act - already enacted in New York City - aim to ensure food transparency by limiting predatory food and beverage marketing aimed at youth, and mandating warning icons on menu items high in added-sugars.

Register to watch the Zoom roundtable here.

WHO:

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Senator Zellnor Myrie, PMPA sponsor

Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU Steinhardt, Paulette Goddard Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health

Dr. Lisa Powell, University of Illinois at Chicago, Distinguished Professor and Director in the Division Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health

Teens for Food Justice

WHAT:

A Zoom roundtable with leading food policy and health experts Marion Nestle, Lisa Powell, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest examining the latest findings on unhealthy food marketing, and exploring state food reforms aimed at protecting children from predatory practices and diet-related chronic diseases.
WHEN: Wednesday January 21, 2026 at 04:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: On Zoom (registration link in notes section)
New York
NOTES:

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ptl5RntTRxuVODgc8BFEBQ#/registration