Chris Lytle Reviews Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

Chris Lytle Reviews Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

By: Chris Lytle
VP of Anger Management
Plan Z Diet

“Bet You Can’t Eat Just One” was the advertising tagline for Lay’s potato chips. The commercials issued the challenge and the consumers took them up on it. But Frito-Lay already knew you couldn’t each just one chip. The chips were designed with the perfect combination of salt, sugar and fat that keeps people eating.

Where’s the sugar in a potato chip?

The starchy potato turns begins to turn into sugar as soon has your saliva starts working. That’s the carbohydrate effect.

Plan Z diet by Zola has a VP of Anger Management. That’s me. My name is Chris Lytle and my job is to connect you to new learning. I see RED whenever the media spews bogus advice on diet, exercise and nutrition. Misinformation is everywhere.

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us is a compelling look at the companies, the executives and the food scientists who share (but don’t accept) the responsibility for America’s obesity and health crisis. As a future Plan Z diet by Zola client you understand the importance of reading labels and avoiding the aisles of the grocery store that are filled with processed foods. If you want to build your resolve to stick with this for the rest of your life, then add Salt Sugar Fat to your must read list. If you don’t want to read a 356-page book, you can get the highlights in the article excerpted from the book that appeared in the New York Times magazine last month.

About the Author:

Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who spent 3-1/2 years researching this book. He’s at his best as he recreates his conversations with the people behind the products. As you read, you begin to understand the people, the products, the research and the marketing that goes into creating a billion dollar brand and how they foist it on the consumer.

Moss is not at his best as he parrots the government and American Heart Association lines to cut down on salt and saturated fats as a way to build health. Despite including Gary Taubes’ Good Calories Bad Calories in his bibliography, Moss still believes that fat makes us fat and salt raises our blood pressure. My takeaway was a deeper understanding of the role Wall Street plays in the obesity epidemic by making the selling of food more important than the food itself. Moss asks the industry insiders he interviews whether or not they eat the food they sell. They respond that they don’t. They acknowledge that they have to sell more to satisfy their stockholders whether or not they are nourishing their customers.

Bottom line:

The food processing industry knows what it’s doing. They are filling their foods with salt, sugar and fat to make them more appealing and habit-forming. There is no cheese in Cheez Whiz and there is no butter in Keebler Light Buttery Crackers. Cheaper ingredients mean higher profits. You need to know what the food processing industry is doing. When you do, you won’t find their foods nearly as appealing or “crave-able” as they would hope you would.

Remember, your own ANGER is the emotion that will take you from a life of frustration to one of fun and freedom.

But only if you make the decision to do something about it.

So keep asking those tough questions. You deserve a healthier Plan Z Diet life.

Stay Angry,

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