Salt, Sugar, Fat

     When I sat down to begin reading Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us I was prepared to be mildly horrified at the information I found in it's pages. However, I found myself absolutely disgusted by callous dissregard so many of the food companies have for their customer's health. My family is very health conscious and we avoid processed foods as much as we can, and this book simply served to stear me even further away from them. Something I found particularly interesting that Moss pointed out in his book was that whenever he ate with the executives, representatives, marketer's etc. of the food companies, they always seemed to avoid consuming the products that they sold. Another thing that bothered me was the way so many of the processed foods alterred their consistancy, flavor and texture when either the salt, sugar or fat was reduced or removed. Why should I want to eat something that becomes disgusting and rubbery when you remove the salt? Although I am not particularly inclined to eat processed foods in the first place, a part of me is sad that the foods I like to reserve for special occasion have been tainted by the truth. I am definately fond of the occasional soda when I go out, or a few chips at a friend's party, but I am unsure if I can actually stomache them anymore now that I know what is they really contain. This book has made me far more wary of the contents of my foods, and I certainly will question the validity of any food advertisements I see from now on. In my opinion, Salt, Suger, Fat was very enlightening and interesting, despite the unfortunate state of the information that was displayed.