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Sugar, Fat, Salt: How Your Food Is Fooling You (2012)

by David A. Kessler(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1596438487 (ISBN13: 9781596438484)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: I have read literally 100's of books about dieting and nutrition, and there's always room for one more if it has interesting news, or even old news, told in a new way. This book was actually written for teens, but I liked it, mostly because the author didn't have a new diet to plug. He did, however, emphasize something I knew but didn't know the extent of, and that is the extreme measures the food industry takes to trap the consumer. In taste-testing, companies like Frito-Lay and Nabisco are not content with a product that satisfies the consumer. They literally do not stop refining a recipe until it is deemed irresistible to the taster---as in "I bet you can't eat just one. . ." If the taster says they loved the product, but they stop eating after one, the company co... morensiders that recipe a flop. And they just keep adding more fat, salt and sugar in different ways to layer the flavors. I also learned that the food industry has come up with a new phrase "eatertainment" and restaurants and fast food places are trying harder to focus on food that is fun to eat and provides lasting memories of some kind to create a hook in your mind to try to relive good times. I had noticed that trend in t.v. commercials, but I didn't know it was an actual idea. I am always telling my husband when we watch t.v that we could be so much happier if we could only go to Chili's because all those people are having such a good time.
review 2: This book had a large effect on me and hopefully my eating habits. Kessler provides some great arguments and lots of ammunition to back them up. I'll never look at chips or cookies again without thinking "salt, fat, sugar." But, in my mind, this teen version of Kessler's manifesto is repetitive and condescending. Throughout the book are "callouts" typed in bold letters that repeat what he has just stated in the previous paragraph. I don't know many teens who would pick up this book in the first place who would need to be hit over the head in this fashion. At the end of the book when he gives his advice for eating a cleaner and more healthful diet, he again repeats and reiterates the same thing over and over. I felt like I was reading an elementary school primer!Kessler is serving some thought provoking and stimulating information in this book. Too bad he couldn't allow the information to speak for itself. I find it difficult to digest a book that gives me so little credit for being able to understand it's major premise. less

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