Pursuits
Cereal With 70% Sugar Hooks Kids on Junk-Food Bliss Point
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After E. coli from a burger paralyzed 22-year-old Stephanie Smith, Michael Moss’s newspaper story tracing the meat’s origins helped win him a Pulitzer Prize in 2010.
The titular villains of Moss’s new book, “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” aren’t much less malign. The three substances are tied to rising obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. They’re also the pillars on which the $1 trillion food-manufacturing industry is built.