From unscientific diets to snake-oil products, ‘healthy eating’ has never been a more nebulous term or challenging project. Nutrition labels, packed with figures and jargon, are little help in understanding the content of what we consume. In fact, argues Michael Moss, they only serve to further mystify it. In Salt Sugar Fat and Hooked, Moss reveals the secret ingredients to processed food’s domination of supermarkets. Hidden behind the foods many Americans love most–potato chips, cookies, soda–is a world of research and marketing aimed at designing the perfect, and most perfectly addictive, snack. Join Moss at the American Library to learn how the world got hooked, and what we can do now.
About the speaker:
Michael Moss is a journalist and author of two New York Times bestselling books on the processed food industry, Salt Sugar Fat (2014) and Hooked (2021). He is a frequent guest on newscasts globally, from CBS This Morning to the BBC. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 for his investigation of the dangers of contaminated meat.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Moss will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
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