Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back

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Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back
by Michele Simon
from Nation Books

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Appetite for Profit, or personal aggrandizement
  I believe that Michele Simon's Appetite for Profit is composed mostly of her opinions. Simon, seems to feel that the governement most regulate what we eat, and how we are marketed product choices. Simon attempts to bring up the issue of the obsity epidemic in America, as soley the fault of large food industries, such as Kraft, PepsiCola, and CokeCola. Simon's book never deals with personal responsibility of the consumer to READ nutritional information for themselves. Another personal responsibility that... more info

• Beware
  Is your food safe to eat? The multinational companies that control a majority of the food in this country have one thing in mind, and it is not your health. Big food is a profit driven business like any other, and these companies are focused on one thing - increasing those profits. If this means using more chemicals and preservatives that have proven to be unhealthy, so be it. If this means unethical marketing of unhealthy food to children, so be it as well. Read this to learn how the food industry truly... more info

• Most interesting and eye-opening book about foods ever
  This book is amazing if you are interested in food and health and want to know everything about how the food industry tries to get you to eat more, and unhealthy just because they want to make money off of you.
  Even with a background in Nutrition this books gives a lot of real life examples of how sneaky the food industry is. the author really knows what she's talking about and she has done her homework. A fast read, and so interesting, you might want to read it twice

• Good info
  Good to know stuff about the power of the food industry in the USA and how it protects its interests while putting our health at risk.

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