Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants hooked Us is a 2014 book
by Michael Moss. Almot 9 years now, there are more and more evidence to support
his findings and people are also more educated about the health and diet. For
example, I saw the Lancet published a report
on 2019 about the health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries. Check the
link to read the full text.
Although I only read portion of Part one: Sugar, I’m fully
aware of the link between obesity and sugar. Adding diabetes and heart disease
would not be a surprise. The practice that food giants influence the research
so the result pivot should be corrected over time. As we put ESG (environment,
social responsibility, and corporate government) at the top priority, it is no
doubt that this kind of practice should not be accepted. Institution such as
the one mentioned in the book Monell Chemical Senses Center https://monell.org/research-cores/
should also have its environmental and social responsibility on its core value,
besides of nutritional health and disease diagnostic.
Overall, I believe diet is a complex and personal thing. Each
person is different, the demand/need is different, the consumption is different.
Not to mention each person’s body adaptation is different too. Salt, sugar, and
fat are all related to each other. When one reduces fat in the diet, you still
need to get some sort of balance, rather than substitute by sugar because it is
not as simple as measured by calories.
Fast once a while. I believe there may be reasons behind this.
It is embedded in some religions and some groups of people. No scientific
evidence means it is not known “so far”. Give it time, we still have lots to
learn about ourselves.