Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262542821)

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 Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.

Author: Michael F. Jacobson
ISBN-10: 026254282X
ISBN-13: 9780262542821
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d