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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic bull The Huffington Post bull Menrsquos Journal bull MSN UK bull Kirkus Reviews bull Publishers Weekly NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER bull WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATUREEvery year the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese and seventy pounds of sugar Every day we ingest milligrams of salt double the recommended amount almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table It comes from processed food an industry that hauls in trillion in annual sales In Salt Sugar Fat Pulitzer Prizendashwinning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here Featuring examples from Kraft Coca-Cola Lunchables Frito-Lay Nestleacute Oreos Capri Sun and many more Mossrsquos explosive empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous eye-opening research He takes us into labs where scientists calculate the ldquobliss pointrdquo of sugary beverages unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks and talks to concerned insiders who make startling confessions Just as millions of ldquoheavy usersrdquo are addicted to salt sugar and fat so too are the companies that peddle them You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again Praise for Salt Sugar Fat ldquoMichael Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and he argues persuasively actually to addict usrdquomdashMichael Pollan ldquoIf you had any doubt as to the food industryrsquos complicity in our obesity epidemic it will evaporate when you read this bookrdquomdashThe Washington Post ldquoVital reading for the discerning food consumerrdquomdashThe Wall Street Journal ldquoThe chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar fat and salt We are fundamentally changing our livesmdashand the world around usrdquomdashAlice Waters ldquoPropulsively written and persuasively argued an exactingly researched deeply reported work of advocacy journalismrdquomdashThe Boston GlobeldquoA remarkable accomplishmentrdquomdashThe New York TimesBook ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Michael Moss was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010, and was a finalist for the prize in 2006 and 1999. He is also the recipient of a Gerald Loeb Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. Before coming to The New York Times, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
