Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
katya_soleil says:
I listened to this book off and on for over two years. The information it provides is informative, well researched and downright frightening, and I consider the book an important contribution to the canon of books that expose food companies and their evil motivations. However, I found the book to be extremely detailed, which often made for a tedious read. There were many times when the Moss was concerned with the minutiae of his research, which would no doubt be important to sc...ientists but was less meaningful to a layperson. I do recommend this book as it armed me with more knowledge about the decisions I make when it comes to food.
berra75 says:
Part business history, part science, part health, part politics, part ethics; full of whistleblowers, inventors, leaders, do-gooders, scientists, marketers - it all boils down to a very interesting story of how American diets are shaped by big business. It wrestles with the problem of following the logic of business to where we find ourselves today, eating ourselves to death. You can't deny the business decisions have been sound. Yet you can't deny the effect they're having on the health of the nation. Moss doesn't provide stock answers or pronouncements of good and bad. He does reluctantly make it seem like despite the best intentions of some within the food industry, the choice between a health food industry and a healthy nation is the question before us. The audiobook performer does a great job.MoreLess
I listened to this book off and on for over two years. The information it provides is informative, well researched and downright frightening, and I consider the book an important contribution to the canon of books that expose food companies and their evil motivations. However, I found the book to be extremely detailed, which often made for a tedious read. There were many times when the Moss was concerned with the minutiae of his research, which would no doubt be important to sc...ientists but was less meaningful to a layperson. I do recommend this book as it armed me with more knowledge about the decisions I make when it comes to food.
berra75 says:
Part business history, part science, part health, part politics, part ethics; full of whistleblowers, inventors, leaders, do-gooders, scientists, marketers - it all boils down to a very interesting story of how American diets are shaped by big business. It wrestles with the problem of following the logic of business to where we find ourselves today, eating ourselves to death. You can't deny the business decisions have been sound. Yet you can't deny the effect they're having on the health of the nation. Moss doesn't provide stock answers or pronouncements of good and bad. He does reluctantly make it seem like despite the best intentions of some within the food industry, the choice between a health food industry and a healthy nation is the question before us. The audiobook performer does a great job.MoreLess
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Guest 6 years ago
This book is extremely valuable because it is extremely informative, even if it does seem somewhat disorganized. When taken in with patience and contemplation, the reader quickly recognizes that we are each responsible for our own health and especially the lifelong health of our children - manufacturers are there to make money. Marketing is there to make that happen. The government will only do so much. The long history of information in this book is an excellent reminder of these facts and a real eye-opener to numerous other concepts of which many of us may be completely oblivious. I thank the author for all his work and care in gathering and presenting this educational book and I will recommend it to others in hopes they, like me, will come to see all those packages on the grocery shelves, and all the media ads, in a whole new light. I actually chose to read this book as a way to disgust myself into cutting down my own sugar intake, and fortunately, I got a great deal more than I bargained for.Write Review:
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