Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Description:

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: Nutrition,  Sodium content,  Food habits,  Economics,  Health aspects,  Toxicology,  Sugar content,  Fat content,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Food additives,  Food,  Food industry and trade,  Food Industry,  Diet,  Junk food,  Nutritional Physiological Phenomena,  Feeding Behavior,  Dietary Sodium Chloride,  Dietary Fats,  Dietary Sucrose,  Adverse effects,  Coutumes alimentaires,  Economic aspects,  Food, fat content,  Food, sodium content,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2013-03-17,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Corrupt practices,  Corporations,  Compulsive behavior,  Compulsive eating,  Popular Works