Salt Sugar Fat

 

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.