From the Publisher
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New
York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the
processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to
addict us.
Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive
world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have
deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five
decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an
eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods
have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to
increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and
regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original
reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous
sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies
have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired
publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of
how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for
the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry''s
own say, "Enough already."
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 480 Pages, 6.3 × 9.45 × 1.18 in
Published: February 26, 2013
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0771057083
ISBN - 13: 9780771057083