Recommended: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Some people are upset that Trump apparently used persuasion techniques to win the election  - never mind that all politicians, including Hillary Clinton, also tried to use the same techniques. They just weren't as good at it. But the issue is far larger than just presidential politics. Corporations and special interest groups (political, religions, marketing, kooks, etc.) all do the same thing to us every day. Michal Moss, in his 2013 book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, details how these technique have been used to delude the public into eating poorly, with the result that we now face an epidemic of obesity. This book will (or at least, should) make you fighting mad, not only at the food industries and corporations, but at your own federal government as well. It's probably no news that too many government agencies are controlled and subverted by the very industries they are supposed to regulate, but this book will drive the point home and make you skeptical of any FDA food guideline.