Michael F. Jacobson

Salt Wars

The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

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From the crusader credited with popularizing the phrase junk food, Salt Wars uncovers the group of scientists who worked with food industry lobbyists and fought all efforts to reduce the dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths per year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets--in packaged food, fast food, and restaurant meals. Why hasn't salt received the sort of attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-262-36056-2
EAN: 9780262360562
Produktnummer: 33563553
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'126 KB
Abbildungen: 11 B&W ILLUS.

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.