2007

• Nation’s Restaurant News 50: Health Authorities
• University of California Alumni Association Centennial, 100 Berkeley Luminaries
• James Beard Foundation award for best reference book, What to Eat
• Cooking Light (August, 118-121), featured as one of three “Movers & Taste Shapers [who help] improve the way we eat”
• Listed as an entry in Food Snob’s Dictionary, by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld, Broadway Books
• Natural Gourmet Institute Award for Excellence in Health-Supportive Food Education

2006

• California Public Health Association–North, Bridging the Gap Award for Excellence in Science and Public Policy Writing
• San Francisco Bay Guardian 2006 Best of the Bay Award: Food Politics Lecture Series, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley
• Appointed Visiting Professor, Nutrition Sciences, Cornell University (Honorary)

2005

• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Fellow
• National Committee for Quality Assurance 2005 Health Quality Award
• American Society for Nutritional Sciences, Elected Fellow

2004

• Saveur Magazine, The Saveur 100 Favorites
• New York Daily News, 100 Women Who Shape Our City
• Alumna of the Year, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health
• Time Magazine, Obesity Warrior
• American Public Health Association, David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health
• Organic Style Environmental Power 50 List “Guardian of Good Eating”

2003

• James Beard Foundation Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in America (lifetime achievement)
• James Beard Foundation book award, literary category, Food Politics
• Vanity Fair magazine, Food Snob’s Dictionary (entry)
• San Francisco Chronicle best books of 2003, Safe Food