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Stuffed : an insider's look at who's (really) making America fat / Hank Cardello ; with Doug Garr.

by Cardello, Hank.

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New York : Ecco, c2009.

Food industry and trade -- United States.

Obesity -- United States.

Food -- United States -- Marketing.

9780061363863 (hbk.) :

xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm.

Preface -- A boxcar full of turkeys -- How food executives think -- What grocers don't want you to know -- The people behind the menu -- How purchasing agents make us fat -- Nobody wants to be told what to eat -- Let them eat cupcakes -- The nanny state versus the restaurant lobby -- The consumer conundrum -- Foodonomics -- Stealth health -- Future foods -- How big brother can (really) help -- The quest for healthier food -- Epilogue: full circle.

A food industry insider blows the whistle on American food corporations, discussing how the boardroom decisions and slick marketing machines of restaurant chains and food packagers have spurred the obesity epidemic and created the nation's most serious health crisis.

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