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After hearing glowing recommendations for Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss on the Open Food Facts forum, I picked up the book with a simple question in mind: How can someone write 400 pages about three basic ingredients — salt, sugar and fat? Three months later, after slowly working my way through the book, the answer became clear. These three ingredients are not just kitchen staples. In the hands of the trillion-dollar processed food industry, they have been carefully engineered to make foods convenient, irresistible, and hard to stop eating. Reading the book was both validating and chilling. Validating, because many of us already suspect something strange about ultra-processed foods. Chilling, because Moss reveals just how deliberately these products are designed. Although the book focuses on American companies, the lessons apply globally. Multinational food giants routinely transfer successful strategies from one country to another. Take the example of ...

"Let food be your medicine and medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates It's reassuring to know that food can act as preventive medicine.  Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal -  An A-Z Guide to Safe and Healthy Eating  expertly explores both the benefits and potential risks of various fruits, vegetables, and other food sources. Written by experts and filled with vibrant images, this engaging book presents essential information in a visually appealing way. It also addresses common health conditions and how different foods can affect them, with everything neatly organized alphabetically for easy reference. While the book is geared toward an American audience, which slightly limits its global appeal, it remains highly valuable and insightful. As a vegetarian and food enthusiast, I was surprised by how little I knew about the health benefits and drawbacks of the foods I’ve been eating for years. I found the book incredibly informative and highly recommend it to anyone seeking pract...