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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world's largest processed food companies, from Coca-Cola to Nabisco, gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it. Increasingly, the salt, sugar, and fat laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be a day of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A tale of relentless terror of a modern-day vampire. For Richard Dees facts are stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. What is it that flies by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airports and brutally murder local residents? Clues reveal a pilot more terrifying, a creature so untamed by human nature, that their final confrontation will leave no body unbloodied.
Publisher
Decoding Annie Parker, LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Annie Parker finds out she has breast cancer, a devastating blow to a woman who's already lost her mother and sister to the same disease. Mary-Claire King is a geneticist researching the still unknown link between DNA and cancer in the wake of skeptical colleagues and funding challenges.
