However, it's important to stay aware of exactly how much you eat of each of these, something which many of us don't bother to do. Everyone eats some sugar, fat and salt in their diet and a healthy amount of each won't hurt you. Overall, this is a book that will make you rethink your food choices no matter how healthy you may think you are. No matter how hard consumers try to stay away from dairy, the industry keeps producing more and more ways to bring you back to it.
There is pizza crust filled with cheese, cheesy chips and crackers, as well as frozen food with a lot of cheese.
However, the industry has responded by producing more and more products full of cheese. Since the 70s, people have been trying to cut down on their consumption of milk, to reduce chances of weight gain. Salt is used instead of healthier herbs and spices to give some taste to food which would otherwise be completely bland. Sugar gives you a rush like methamphetamine while fat is like an opiate which makes you feel content.
These ingredients work like narcotics, dulling our senses and encouraging us to try just a little more. Salt, sugar and fat are the three ingredients used most by big companies to draw consumers in. His information comes from insiders within the food industry who reveal that, to these conglomerates, human beings are just potential "heavy users." He interviews chemists, behavioral biologists, nutrition scientists, food technologists, package designers, marketing executives, and everyone else who is concerned with putting a certain product on the market. In Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Michael Moss, writes a chilling account of how fast food giants put a great deal of thought into producing the exact product that will reach the maximum number of consumers, with no regard for their health.
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