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Michael Moss

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Michael Moss is an American journalist and author whose nonfiction examines the processed food industry and its use of salt, sugar, and fat.

Biography

Michael Moss is an American journalist, author, and public speaker. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 and was a finalist in 2006 and 1999. His other honors include the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers, an Overseas Press Club citation, and a James Beard Foundation Award for Literary Writing.

Before joining The New York Times, Moss reported for publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list and has been translated into 22 languages. He has held fellowships at Columbia University's Gannett Center for Media Studies and the German Marshall Fund, and served as an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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Books by Michael Moss

Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat traces the rise of the processed food industry and explores Moss's theory that companies have used salt, sugar, and fat to shape much of the world's diet. Through examples of major companies and brands, it examines corporate practices in relation to obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.