Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
A Nonfiction, Science, Health book. In her most recent project, she tested 356 children, ages five to ten, who were...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATUREFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back. In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world’s largest processed food companies—from Coca-Cola to Nabisco—gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis...
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In her most recent project, she tested 356 children, ages five to ten, who were brought to Monell to determine their bliss point for sugar31. The bliss point is the precise amount of sweetnessno more, no lessthat makes food and drink most enjoyable. She was finishing up this project in the fall of 2010 when she agreed to show me some of the methods she had developed. Before we got started, I did a little research on the term bliss point itself. Its origins are murky, having some roots in economic theory. In relation to sugar, however, the term appears... America had yet seenthat is, until the public caught on and the lean, ammonia-processed beef came to be known as pink slime. Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us // Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us //
This was an absolutely fascinating read. There are many books on the state of our food supply, and many of them are equally interesting, but what differentiates this one from the rest of the pack is that it uses this Pulitzer prizewinning investigative reporter's skills to present a history of processed food in America. Michael Moss... I read the first third of the book, "Sugar," and I just could not continue to put myself through this torture. It takes a special writer to craft a piece of nonfiction that is not only informative, but engaging. Michael Moss is not that author, at least not in this book. It is evident that he did his research and spent a lot of time... Once you read this book a trip to the grocery store will never be the same. You will watch your fellow shoppers walk around the store an pick up items like mindless creatures; like your the only one who knows whats really going on, kind of like in the film "They Live."The section on fat is mostly about Phillip Morris's acquisition and...
