Research Catalog

Title

Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us / Michael Moss.

Author

Moss, Michael, 1955-

Publication

New York : Random House, [2013], ©2013.

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Description

xxx, 446 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• 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.

Subject

• Nutrition > Economic aspects > United States
• Food habits > Economic aspects > United States
• Food industry and trade > United States
• Diet > economics
• Feeding Behavior
• Food Industry
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"The company jewels" -- Salt - sugar - fat -- "Exploiting the biology of the child" -- "How do you get people to crave?" -- "Convenience with a Capital 'C'" -- "Is it cereal or candy?" -- "I want to see a lot of body bags" -- "A burst of fruity aroma" -- Salt - sugar - fat -- "That gooey, sticky mouthfeel" -- "Liquid gold" -- "Lunchtime is all yours" -- "The message the government conveys" -- "No sugar, no fat, no sales" -- Salt - sugar - fat -- "People love salt" -- "The same great salty taste your customers crave" -- "I feel so sorry for the public" -- "We're hooked on inexpensive food."

ISBN

• 9781400069804 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• 1400069807

LCCN

• 2012033034
• 99952988027

OCLC

• ocn795758158
• SCSB-9402736

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries