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Susan Yager

Adjunct Faculty

Nutrition and Food Studies

Susan Yager is a diet historian and author of The Hundred Year Diet. America’s Voracious Appetite For Losing Weight (Rodale, 2010), and co-author of Why Men Stop Having Sex (William Morrow, 2008), which deals in part with the impact of obesity on sexual dysfunction and image.  She has contributed to The Huffington Post Living section, Edible East End, Valley Table, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. Yager and her work have been featured in the opening segment of CBS Sunday Morning and written about in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She has been interviewed by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Barbara Walters, NPR’s Marketplace, Good Morning America, featured on more than 10 regional NPR segments, and appeared in the HBO series The Weight of the Nation. She received a master’s degree in Food Studies from NYU in 2004 and teaches Sustainability on the East End of Long Island.

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Food Studies

The Food Studies program explores the cultural, historical, and sociological aspects of food and food systems.

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