Best Selling Books by Michael Moss

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese and seventy pounds of sugar. Every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here. Featuring examples from Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Capri Sun, and many more, Moss’s explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, eye-opening research. He takes us into labs where scientists calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages, unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks, and talks to concerned insiders who make startling confessions. Just as millions of “heavy users” are addicted to salt, sugar, and fat, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again. Praise for Salt Sugar Fat “[Michael] Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry. Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers, he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and, he argues persuasively, actually to addict us.”—Michael Pollan “If you had any doubt as to the food industry’s complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book.”—The Washington Post “Vital reading for the discerning food consumer.”—The Wall Street Journal “The chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country . . . Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives—and the world around us.”—Alice Waters “Propulsively written [and] persuasively argued . . . an exactingly researched, deeply reported work of advocacy journalism.”—The Boston Globe “A remarkable accomplishment.”—The New York Times Book Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. “The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobacco—which is why Michael Moss’s new book is so important.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions—and to find the true peril in our food. Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communities—as well as food manufacturers—already know: that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we’ve evolved to prefer fast, convenient meals, hence our modern-day preference for ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry—including major companies like Nestlé, Mars, and Kellogg’s—has tried not only to evade this troubling discovery about the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. For instance, in response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets, filling grocery stores with “diet” foods that are hardly distinguishable from the products that got us into trouble in the first place. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits. A gripping account of the legal battles, insidious marketing campaigns, and cutting-edge food science that have brought us to our current public health crisis, Hooked lays out all that the food industry is doing to exploit and deepen our addictions, and shows us why what we eat has never mattered more.

A history of Scotland''s second oldest university from its foundation to the present.

Sir Alexander Boswell (1775-1822) wrote Scottish songs that are still performed today, such as “Jenny’s Bawbee”. An extravagant character and a Tory, he wrote flagrant lampoons of his Whig opponents. One of them greatly incensed his Whig cousin James Stuart of Dunearn, who challenged him to a duel in which Boswell was killed. At his trial for murder, Stuart was represented as a peaceable man unaccustomed to the use of firearms. Nothing could be further from the truth. He served in the militia, was irascible and, at times, violent. This book tells the compelling stories of the remarkable tangled events that led to their quarrel. The duel marked a turning point in Scottish politics away from a turbulent and fractious past to a quieter future. The Whigs triumphed, paving the way for liberal Scotland. In addition, this volume includes, for the first time, many of Boswell’s poems and witty lampoons.

Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle.

From exclusive interviews with relatives and close association with the couple, the author writes a biography of real estate billionaires Leona and Harry Helmsley.

This commentary on the Epistles of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus highlights insights into ministry, enduring hardships, and understanding the essentiality of good works. It is part of the College Press NIV Commentary Series.

My goal is to help you understand how to make your faith work for you and overcome fear which is negative faith expectation. We will explore the difference between positive and negative faith (fear) because it is helpful to know that your faith works both ways (positive & negative). Reading and applying the principals shared in this book will empower and enable you to fulfill your divine birthright and destiny to lead a healthy, abundant, and prosperous life.

Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in Nelson''s defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson''s flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty''s career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London''s business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty''s case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson , he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero''s last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.

Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons'' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that could be played by the nascent professions in this period in promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but profited from their years in the army to build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the native country and frequently settled in London and other English cities, where they often became pillars of the community.

Soldiers’ first-hand accounts of Second World War active service invariably make inspiring and exciting reading but Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges is exceptional for several reasons. First, Brian Moss’s role as a bomb disposal specialist was especially hazardous. Secondly, he was in the thick of the action from the start, dealing with unexploded ordnance during the London blitz. He was then deployed as a frontline sapper to North Africa and onto Sicily before landing on Gold Beach on D-Day. Despite many close calls he was relatively unscathed until taken out by a butterfly bomb at Nijmegen. Fortunately, despite serious injury he lived, quite literally, to tell the tale but his war was over. While the author’s graphic account compares favorably with the very best wartime memoirs, it also has a unique element, namely examples of his outstanding artistic skill. It is truly remarkable that he not only managed to produce so many fine works under combat conditions and that he was able to draw such accurate maps from memory. His sketches and paintings bring a special dimension to this story. What a privilege it is to feast on the words and images created by this exceptionally brave and talented man.

En abril de 1999, once representantes de las mayores empresas alimentarias de Estados Unidos se reunían a puerta cerrada para debatir acerca de la creciente epidemia de obesidad y cómo actuar frente a ella. Una pregunta flotaba en el aire: ¿Ellos eran de algún modo los responsables? A lo largo de los años, los fabricantes de la industria alimentaria se han disputado la primacía en el sector elevando, cada vez más, las cantidades de sal, azúcar y grasa en los alimentos que producen. Unos ingredientes cuyo uso deliberado han estudiado y controlado metódicamente, basándose en estudios científicos que demuestran que actúan sobre nuestro cerebro proporcionándonos un placer adictivo similar al que generan drogas como la cocaína. Michael Moss, prestigioso periodista de investigación, dedicó cuatro años de su vida a indagar en distintas compañías entrevistando a científicos y publicistas, entre otros, y visitando laboratorios y departamentos de marketing para descubrir las «tácticas ocultas» que tiene uno de los sectores, en mayor medida responsable de nuestra salud, para engancharnos a sus productos. Con todo ello, Moss ha escrito este libro en el que describe cómo la industria manipula los alimentos para que nos convirtamos en adictos a sus elaboraciones y que, tras leerlo, hará que te lo pienses dos veces antes de comprar según qué cosas.

Em 1999, os principais líderes da indústria alimentícia, da Coca-Cola à Nabisco, se encontraram para uma reunião secreta de emergência. A pauta: o que fazer diante da epidemia de obesidade das últimas décadas. Ao longo de quase um século, fabricantes de alimentos disputam o paladar do público misturando nas fórmulas de seus produtos quantidades cada vez maiores de sal, açúcar e gordura. Em outras palavras: tentam criar alimentos mais saborosos, custe o que custar. E o custo, no caso, é a saúde: um número cada vez maior de estudos científicos tem demonstrado a relação direta entre o alto consumo de alimentos processados e problemas de saúde como obesidade, hipertensão e diabetes. Neste importante livro-reportagem, o jornalista Michael Moss não só denuncia esse momento crítico da indústria alimentícia, como leva o leitor para dentro dos laboratórios, salas de reunião e departamentos de marketing a fim de mostrar como os alimentos que estão nas prateleiras do supermercado são cuidadosamente projetados para enganar o paladar e a inteligência do consumidor, seja com sabores artificiais, seja com anúncios de “baixo teor de sódio” (porém, com o dobro de gordura) ou “zero açúcar” (mas com excesso de sal e aditivos). Um livro para mudar definitivamente a maneira de enxergarmos os rótulos e os alimentos. “Michael Moss investigou a fundo as grandes empresas alimentícias e descobriu que a comida processada é desenvolvida para nos fazer comer mais. Na verdade, segundo Moss, ela é feita para viciar.” Michael Pollan “Se havia ainda alguma dúvida a respeito da responsabilidade da indústria alimentícia pela epidemia de obesidade atual, este livro vai fazê-la evaporar.” The Washington Post

Korean edition of [Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions] by Michael Moss. New York Times bestseller. From the author of [Salt Sugar Fat] comes a gripping exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. Korean edition translated by Yeon Ah Ram.

Voedselproducenten blijken er alles aan te doen om ons te verleiden en een plekje in onze maag te veroveren, en houden ons zo afhankelijk van zout, suiker en vet. Het aantal mensen met zwaar overgewicht, diabetes en hartziektes is zo schrikbarend toegenomen dat men spreekt van een heuse obesitas-epidemie. Al jaren worden grote voedselbedrijven als Nestlé, Oreos, Kellogs, Procter & Gamble, Coca- Cola en Mars aangesproken op het ongezonde voedsel dat ze op de markt brengen. Zij weerleggen de kritiek met het argument dat de consument de keuze maakt en zij enkel de markt bedienen. Met schokkende feiten, cijfers en voorbeelden trekt Moss vergelijkingen met de tabaksindustrie en maakt hij duidelijk hoe de voedselindustrie gebruikmaakt van een ingenieuze mix van wetenschap, marketing en opzettelijke onwetendheid om de supermarktschappen te vullen met ongezonde producten. Michael Moss, onderzoeksjournalist van The New York Times, won de Pulitzer Prijs voor zijn artikel over het besmette vlees van hamburgers. Sinds 2000 schrijft hij regelmatig voor de krant en in het meer literaire The New Yorker waarbij hij zijn interesse steeds meer richt op de voedselindustrie

Sommes-nous prêts à entendre la vérité sur le contenu de nos assiettes ? À partir de dossiers confidentiels, de notes internes et de témoignages d’anciens cadres de l’agroalimentaire, l’Américain Michael Moss dénonce sans détours les industriels qui saturent leurs produits de sucre, de sel et de matières grasses pour nous rendre dépendants dès le berceau. Le journaliste d’investigation dévoile les secrets – pourtant bien gardés – de ces géants prêts à tout pour dominer le marché, exporter leurs produits et imposer leurs stratégies marketing, malgré les graves problèmes sanitaires et sociaux que cela « Un livre puissant qui mêle révélations saisissantes et confessions stupéfiantes, et qui donne surtout la feuille de route vers un futur plus sain. » RON SUSKIND, LAURÉAT DU PRIX PULITZER « Un manifeste galvanisant contre ces entreprises qui manipulent la nourriture pour engraisser leurs résultats – un des livres les plus importants de l’année. » KIRKUS REVIEWS

Sommes-nous prêts à entendre la vérité sur le contenu de notre assiette ? L''Américain Michael Moss, prix Pulitzer 2010 et journaliste d''investigation au New York Times, nous livre une enquête explosive sur la nourriture industrielle et ses corrélations avec l''accroissement de l''obésité. Il dénonce sans détours les industries agroalimentaires qui saturent leurs produits de sel, de sucre et de matières grasses pour nous rendre dépendants dès le berceau. Il dévoile aussi tous les secrets - pourtant bien gardés - de ces géants, pour dominer sans pitié le secteur de l''alimentation. Accablant du début à la fin, ce livre pointe du doigt ces fabricants qui, sans vergogne, redoublent toujours plus d''ingéniosité et d''efforts, faisant appel à des techniques scientifiques de pointe, pour augmenter la consommation de leurs produits et donc de leurs profits. Grâce à des dossiers confidentiels, des notes de service et des témoignages de cadres travaillant dans les hautes sphères de ces grandes firmes, Michael Moss montre la fuite en avant de ces entreprises et le fait qu''aujourd''hui un Américain sur 3 - et un enfant sur 5 - est obèse. Alors que ces entreprises font la sourde oreille face aux graves problèmes sanitaires et sociaux qu''elles créent, rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter l''exportation de leurs produits et de leurs stratégies marketing dans d''autres pays comme la France, où le taux d''obésité atteint aussi des sommets.