Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Moss, Michael, 1955-

Publication

New York : Random House, c2013.

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Description

xxx, 446 p.; 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. 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.

Subject

• Compulsive behavior
• Compulsive eating
• Corporations > Corrupt practices
• Diet > adverse effects
• Diet > economics
• Dietary Fats > adverse effects
• Dietary Sucrose > adverse effects
• Feeding Behavior
• Feeding Behavior
• Food Industry
• Food Industry > economics
• Food additives
• Food additives > Toxicology
• Food habits > Economic aspects > United States
• Food habits > Health aspects
• Food industry and trade > Corrupt practices
• Food industry and trade > Moral and ethical aspects
• Food industry and trade > United States
• Junk food
• Nutrition > Economic aspects > United States
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Sodium Chloride, Dietary > adverse effects
• United States

Genre/Form

Popular Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-422) and index.

Contents

"The company jewels" -- Sugar -- "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" -- Fat -- "That gooey, sticky mouthfeel" -- "Liquid gold" -- "Lunchtime is all yours" -- "The message the government conveys" -- "No sugar, no fat, no sales" -- Salt -- "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

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library