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Language
English
Description
"In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific and medical communities--as well as food manufacturers--already know, which is that food can, in some cases, be even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. Our bodies are hard-wired for sweets, so food manufacturers have deployed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we've evolved...
9) The food co-op handbook: how to bypass supermarkets to control the quality and price of your food
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
"What if you couldn't afford nine dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost - which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine...
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Language
English
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"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering...
15) Kellogg's
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Series
Publisher
VGM Career Horizons
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A food industry insider blows the whistle on American food corporations, discussing how the boardroom decisions and slick marketing machines of restaurant chains and food packagers have spurred the obesity epidemic and created the nation's most serious health crisis.
Series
Agriculture handbook volume no. 697
Publisher
Economic Research Service
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
iii, 71 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Educates, engages, and asks people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibly for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.
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