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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss

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Apr 01, 2013 Janet rated it really liked it

What a comprehensive look at how the processed food giants (e.g., Kraft, Philip Morris, etc.) hook us on their super-processed products. For instance, "as it turns out, the manufacturers of processed foods have been creating a desire for salt where none existed before" (pg. 279). . .Babies love sugar the instant they are born . . .But babies do NOT like salt" (ibid). We have to be taught to like it. Why should we fall for that?

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Mar 27, 2013 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, food, health-fitness

I think I basically knew most of the nutritional information here (short version: too much sugar, fat, and salt is bad for us, processed foods contain too much of them, and processed foods also are specifically engineered to encourage us to eat too much). What did strike me was the similarities between the effect of sugar on our physiology and brain, and that of addictive drugs (recently promoted in my consciousness by Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy).

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Apr 26, 2013 Lacey rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015

I am not doing an overhaul of my eating habits, but this definitely makes me reconsider certain things that I thought were healthy and try to limit my intake on them.

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