Salt Sugar Fat

From Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss comes this explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. In the spring of 1999, the heads of the world’s largest processed food companies—including Coca-Cola, Nabisco, and Kraft—gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis (what else?) for a secret meeting. On the agenda: what to do about growing concerns that salt-, sugar-, and fat-laden foods they produced were being linked to obesity. A worried Kraft executive—wearing a stained bathrobe, unshaven, and smoking a cigarette—beckoned his fellow executives to action with a dire warning: There would be a day of reckoning unless changes were made.