SOLD! Salt Wars (by Michael Jacobson)
I am pleased to announce the sale of Salt Wars, by Michael Jacobson, to Matthew Browne at MIT Press. For nearly four decades, the federal government’s “Dietary Guidelines for Americans”—the country’s basic nutrition policy—has urged people to consume less salt. But sodium consumption has hardly budged and tens of thousands of people die prematurely every year as a result. Salt Wars describes how for decades the food industry, a handful of industry-friendly researchers, and at