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Books like Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is about food industry, addiction, public health. 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.
- The End of Overeating
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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.
Read the summary → - In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
Read the summary → - The Omnivore's Dilemma
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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.
Read the summary → - Fast Food Nation
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Eric Schlosser · Science
Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is one of the most consequential pieces of American investigative journalism of the early twenty-first century.
Read the summary → - How Not to Die
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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.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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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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