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Salt, Sugar, Fat

How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Oct 10, 2015modestgoddess rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Highly recommend this for anyone who is interested in learning, as the subtitle says, how the food giants hooked us. I will never walk around a grocery store again without looking at all the processed foods and thinking, "Why are you trying to kill me?!" Certainly makes one think about food choices. Interesting to note that food execs at the big companies (Kellogg, Kraft etc) don't eat what their companies produce. They are well aware of what absolute crap (can I say that here?!) their products are. Simply fascinating from cover to cover - heartbreaking in places, too. I was trying to take a small measure of comfort from the fact that it's an American book about the American love of fast foods and convenience foods, but my brother put the kibosh on that by telling me that food processors put extra salt in foods made for Canadians, apparently because we love it?! Hoo boy. Nowhere is safe. Shop the outside aisles at the grocery store, avoid the processed stuff, save yourselves!