Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
About this book
The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges. Features examples from some of the most recognizable and profitable companies and brands of the last half century, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more.
Subjects
- adverse effects
- compulsive behavior
- compulsive eating
- corporations
- corrupt practices
- coutumes alimentaires
- diet
- dietary fats
- dietary sodium chloride
- dietary sucrose
- economic aspects
- economics
- fat content
- feeding behavior
- food
- food additives
- food, fat content
- food habits
- food industry
- food industry and trade
- food, sodium content
- health aspects
- junk food
- moral and ethical aspects
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nutrition
- nutritional physiological phenomena
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2013-03-17
- popular works
- sodium content
- sugar content
- toxicology