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Salt, Sugar, Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Salt, Sugar, Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us about?

This is the story of how the food industry have used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. In "Salt, Sugar, Fat" Michael Moss uncovers the truth about the food giants that dominate our supermarket shelves and reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen, time and again, to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators wouldn't figure them out. With access to confidential files and memos, relentless and original reporting, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, Michael Moss shows how some of the worlds biggeset food companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly) and in spite of the meteoric rise of obesity in the western world. The truth about what's in your shopping basket: - A hunk of cheddar cheese is one-third fat, along with protein, salt and a little sugar - The human brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine - In nutrition circles, there is no single product - among the 50,000 items sold in the grocery store - that is considered more evil, or more directly responsible for the obesity crisis than soda - In the world of processed foods, salt is the grea

Who reads Salt, Sugar, Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Michael Moss
Publisher
Virgin Digital; Ebury Publishing
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780753541463
Category
science
Subjects
Medical, Fiction, Science
Rating
3.98 / 5 (61 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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