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by Randi A good overview of America's food industry
"Stuffed" is a good overview of America's food industry, highlighting the practices of the packaged foods industry, the grocery trade, and the restaurant industry. Not surprisingly, their policies promote profits, not health. The author offers an interesting insider's insight, with eye-opening anecdotes. The book becomes more interesting when the author offers real business-based solutions - ideas that could offer food industry profits while benefiting the customer nutritionally. This book is an easy read, and sparked my desire to be more vigilant and aware when making my grocery/restaurant choices.
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by Barbara Let Them Eat Cupcakes!
While some of what Cardello writes about is well-known and been written about before, there is enough updated material and personal, insider stories to keep this book interesting. This book seems to be a good introductory discussion for people interested in learning about the topic, but it isn't the kind of expose that will really shake things up among people already entrenched on opposite sides of the issue. As a parent of two small children, I found the chapter "Let Them Eat Cupcakes" quite entertaining.
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by Beverly You want that cupcake...you know you do....
Hank Cardello – a former executive at some of America’s largest food giants – gives us an insider’s look at how the food industry through clever marketing and manipulation, has super-sized the American diet all of reasonable proportion and made it practically impossible for the consumer to resist. Nutritional science has been trumped by profit. Though some things are obvious – product placement on store shelves, for example – the reader will learn of numerous other practices designed to make you buy and consume more. My favorite was – “Sullivan’s Nod” – used by restaurant wait-staff to persuade you to choose the most expensive item on the menu. There is a thought provoking discussion of vending machines in our schools, how they got there and what their future might be. Cardello also points out the need for personal responsibility on the part of the consumer in the choices they make and lays out a concrete plan of action to make America’s food healthier and then make the healthier food both available and desirable to consumers
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by Shirley Stuffed Stuffed is an absolute delight. Cardello, a former executive in the food industry presents the history of our “improved” foods and their role in the current obesity crisis. He shows how profit has been more important than nutrition. His language, with his flashes of humor is straightforward and easy reading. Everyone concerned with the obesity problem of adults and more so of children will find Stuffed well worth the read.
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by Sandra The World of Food
On the whole, I liked this book. The author let me see how cause and effect have impacted health and body size. It certainly opened my eyes to the world of food and the choices made. It isn't something I would have selected at first but the title intrigued me. I think it would be a good book club choice because the culprits listed would cause a lot of discussion.
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by Melanie Stuffed Full of Facts!
Initially, I didn't think I would be all that impressed with this book because it's a lot of the same information I've already heard in other books and documentaries, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover interesting behind the scenes facts from the advertising point of view in the food industry.
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