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Books like Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is about food industry, labor, corporate power. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Salt Sugar Fat
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    Salt Sugar Fat

    Michael Moss · Science

    Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, spent four years inside the processed food industry to produce Salt Sugar Fat.

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  2. The End of Overeating
    The End of Overeating

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    The End of Overeating

    David A. Kessler · Science

    David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner and dean of two medical schools, wrote The End of Overeating as a scientific investigation into why so many people — including himself — find it nearly impossible to stop eating hyperpalatable food once they start.

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  3. In Defense of Food
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    In Defense of Food

    Michael Pollan · Health

    In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.

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  4. The Omnivore's Dilemma
    The Omnivore's Dilemma

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    The Omnivore's Dilemma

    Michael Pollan · Health

    The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.

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  5. How Not to Die
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    How Not to Die

    Michael Greger · Health

    How Not to Die is Michael Greger's systematic argument that the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle change.

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  6. A Brief History of Time
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    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking · Science

    A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.

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