From the Bookshelf of Daily Show / Colbert Report / Nightly Show / The Opposition

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by
Discussion
2013-Jan-Feb-Mar
Why we're reading this
March 26, 2013

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

This topic has been closed to new comments. * March 2013
By Tiffany , WristStrong · 1 post · 36 views
last updated Mar 31, 2013 11:56AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. * February 2013
By Tiffany , WristStrong · 1 post · 39 views
last updated Mar 01, 2013 06:08PM

What Members Thought

Janet
Apr 01, 2013 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?

Moreover, we, the general public, have had to be convinced by brillia
...more
S
Mar 27, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: non-fiction
Susan Giffin
Jul 01, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Lily
Oct 18, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: food, social, s
Tom
Nov 20, 2013 marked it as to-read
Brian
Dec 28, 2013 rated it really liked it
Suraj
Feb 14, 2016 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Michelle
May 30, 2016 rated it liked it
Sophia
Feb 28, 2021 rated it really liked it
« previous 1 2 next »
6552

Daily Show / Colbert Report / Nightly Show /...