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

The last two books I did with Marion, Soda Politics (as her editor at OUP) and Unsavory Truth (as her agent), were deep dives into major food system issues. Soda Politics mapped the hardball and softball tactics the soft drink industry employs to sell their product to an increasingly obese world, and Unsavory Truth revealed how the food industry corrupts scientific research by paying for studies that are more about marketing than science. These books showcased Marion's incred