Full name: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Author: Michael Moss Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Business, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812982190 0812982193

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already." Similar books: The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler Fat Land by Greg Critser Food Rules by Michael Pollan Pandora's Lunchbox by Melanie Warner Fat Chance by Robert H. Lustig The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker Real Food by Nina Planck Fat Wars by Ellen Ruppel Shell Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock What to Eat by Marion Nestle Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink Death by Food Pyramid by Denise Minger Bad Food Britain by Joanna Blythman In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson Electric Universe by David Bodanis The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner The Innovators by Walter Isaacson