Michael F. Jacobson

Salt Wars

The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

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How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths and many billions of dollars in avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets--in packaged foods, fast foods, and especially meals at table-service restaurants. Why hasn't salt received the sort of public attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In S… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Frieden, Tom

ISBN: 978-0-262-54282-1
EAN: 9780262542821
Produktnummer: 35481983
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 296 S.

Über den Autor

Michael Faraday Jacobson is Cofounder and Senior Scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. He is the author of Six Arguments for a Greener Diet and other books.