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Event description We invite you to a #GeorgeTalks on Salt wars: using policy and the law to reduce salt intake to mark Salt Awareness Week. About this Event The George Institute for Global Health invites you to a #GeorgeTalks on “Salt wars: using policy and the law to reduce salt intake” on Wednesday 10 March 2021 at 12pm (AEDT) to mark ‘World Salt Awareness Week’. For this #GeorgeTalks event, we will be joined by Dr. Michael F. Jacobson, Former Executive Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington D.C. Dr. Jacobson will discuss his recently publi...

Michael F. Jacobson MIT Press, 296 pages, $26.95 It will not surprise you in the slightest that there’s a white crystal scourge eroding the health and mental wellbeing of the nation. It might however surprise you to know that you, dear reader, almost certainly consumed too much of this dangerous substance yesterday. I’m not saying that this is how you got it, but they slip it into your chicken soup. Whether delivered as a crystal or a powder, this white substance harms everyone, but is worst for working class and vulnerable communities. That’s one reason why the Center for Science in t...

By Michael Jacobson MIT Press. 275 pp. $26.95 A year after I quit eating sugar and flour in an effort to slay my food demons, I read a section of my medical chart that compared my latest blood-test results with earlier ones. Good cholesterol: way up! Bad cholesterol: way down! It was so satisfying to see that hard data, even if it was in a measure of health that I habitually ignored. The promise of better cholesterol readings would never have motivated me to change my diet. It took years of accumulated misery around mirrors to make me quit pie. This is one reason it’s hard to get people ...

Book World: Salt is the dietary danger that's easy to ignore Karen Sandstrom, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet By Michael Jacobson - - - A year after I quit eating sugar and flour in an effort to slay my food demons, I read a section of my medical chart that compared my latest blood-test results with earlier ones. Good cholesterol: way up! Bad cholesterol: way down! It was so satisfying to see that hard data, even if it was in a measure of health that I habitually ignored.