- What's Eating Your Child? The hidden connections between food and childhood ailments
- Kelly Dorfman, M.S., L.N.D. special interests is children
- http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Eating-Your-Child-Connection/dp/0761161198?ie=UTF8&qid=1308627767&sr=8-1
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
- Author: Michael Moss - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.
An excerpt from his book - Page 347
The most crucial point to know is that there is nothing accidental in the grocery store. All of this is done with a purpose.
It is, perhaps, not unreasonable in this scenario to think of the grocery store as a battlefield, dotted with landmines itching to go off. And if you accept this, then it becomes all the more apparent why the food industry is so reliant on salt, sugar, and fat. They are cheap. They are interchangeable. They are huge, powerful forces of nature in unnatural food. And yet, for us, knowing all this can be empowering. You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products for what they are. You can also see everything that goes on behind the image they project on the shelf: the formulas, the psychology, and the marketing that compels us to toss them into the cart. They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.
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