Michael Moss Sugar Salt Fat Summary
SUGAR, SALT, FAT
Our world, as a whole, is facing great challenges that affect our current and long-term health. We are stuck on the availability of processed food and need to break this vicious cycle that we are in. We need to take responsibility for ourselves and stop blaming it on consumerism. The big food companies have made it almost impossible to cut them out because health food is more expensive than what they offer. They have hooked us not only because of its convenience, but also because of the foods addictive nature.
Michael Moss touches on many important ethical issues in Sugar, Salt, Fat such as, what methods of nutrition we are teaching our children and how addictive processed food really is. Children don’t want healthy food anymore, they have come to expect that super salty, sugary and fatty foods are the normal way food is supposed to taste, but is isn’t their fault. This problem arouse from a number of things. The big food companies “are teaching children what food should taste like and increasingly, this curriculum has been all about sugar” (Moss 15). And as Moss discusses in his text children have a higher bliss point than adults, so the more sugar the better. Also, kids don’t want to have to wait for their food to be prepared, …show more content…
Dr. Robert H. Lustig states in his article that it causes a raise in blood pressure, which stimulates the pancreas to release high levels of insulin. Which transports glucose to cells for immediate use. But as we eat more and more the pancreas starts to store too much and can’t transport it to the cells effectively. This leads to insulin resistance. This means that there is a lack of glucoses at cellular level, which results in the craving for sweets and carbs. This is the beginning of a vicious cycle. Insulin resistance leads to obesity and obesity increases insulin resistance and the cycle continue on and on (Lustig
Our world, as a whole, is facing great challenges that affect our current and long-term health. We are stuck on the availability of processed food and need to break this vicious cycle that we are in. We need to take responsibility for ourselves and stop blaming it on consumerism. The big food companies have made it almost impossible to cut them out because health food is more expensive than what they offer. They have hooked us not only because of its convenience, but also because of the foods addictive nature.
Michael Moss touches on many important ethical issues in Sugar, Salt, Fat such as, what methods of nutrition we are teaching our children and how addictive processed food really is. Children don’t want healthy food anymore, they have come to expect that super salty, sugary and fatty foods are the normal way food is supposed to taste, but is isn’t their fault. This problem arouse from a number of things. The big food companies “are teaching children what food should taste like and increasingly, this curriculum has been all about sugar” (Moss 15). And as Moss discusses in his text children have a higher bliss point than adults, so the more sugar the better. Also, kids don’t want to have to wait for their food to be prepared, …show more content…
Dr. Robert H. Lustig states in his article that it causes a raise in blood pressure, which stimulates the pancreas to release high levels of insulin. Which transports glucose to cells for immediate use. But as we eat more and more the pancreas starts to store too much and can’t transport it to the cells effectively. This leads to insulin resistance. This means that there is a lack of glucoses at cellular level, which results in the craving for sweets and carbs. This is the beginning of a vicious cycle. Insulin resistance leads to obesity and obesity increases insulin resistance and the cycle continue on and on (Lustig