Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese and seventy pounds of sugar. Every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss … Michael Moss shows how we ended up here. Featuring examples from Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Capri Sun, and many more, Moss’s explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, eye-opening research. He takes us into labs where scientists calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages, unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks, and talks to concerned insiders who make startling confessions. Just as millions of “heavy users” are addicted to salt, sugar, and fat, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again.
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Praise for Salt Sugar Fat
“[Michael] Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry. Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers, he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and, he argues persuasively, actually to addict us.”—Michael Pollan
“If you had any doubt as to the food industry’s complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book.”—The Washington Post
“Vital reading for the discerning food consumer.”—The Wall Street Journal
“The chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country . . . Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives—and the world around us.”—Alice Waters
“Propulsively written [and] persuasively argued . . . an exactingly researched, deeply reported work of advocacy journalism.”—The Boston Globe
“A remarkable accomplishment.”—The New York Times Book Review
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I loved this book. I found it really interesting for three very different reasons — it helped me think about how to avoid an unhealthy diet, it was a fascinating business case study of the food industry and its market dynamics, and it made me understand the history of how a mainly well-intentioned group of individuals could unintentionally lead …
Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry. Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers, he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and, he argues persuasively, actually to addict us.
The chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country… Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives — and the world around us.
Discovering how the food corporations manipulate our food cravings was eye opening. I will never look at a chocolate bar or a breakfast cereal box the same! Knowledge is freedom. Throw off the shackles of salt, sugar and fat and find out why you think you want to eat that pizza or that piece of cake.
Extremely interesting and packed with facts
Great info. Everyone needs to read this.
Eye opener!
Michael Moss’s look at “magical formulations of salt, sugar, and fat,” as he so nicely phrases it, is not for the faint of heart. Salt, Sugar, Fat is no less than an expose on how Big Food has altered the diets of Americans (and increasingly those all over the world) since the heady days after World War II.
Although neither a quick nor light …
Important info
A lot of interesting information tucked between the boring.
How food traps us.
Sad truth about our food and how science, food giants, and good old American capitalism; along with a hefty dose of greed, started our obesity epidemic and contributes to our decline in health as a nation.
Similar to the End of Overeating; I am curious as to which came first. Still useful content