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Salt Sugar Fat How the Food Giants Hooked Us By Michael Moss Random House. 480 pp. $28 Reviewed by Jessica Gresko   A can of Coke contains roughly nine teaspoons of sugar. Lunchables were created as a way to revive a flagging interest in bologna. People like chips that snap with about four pounds of pressure per square inch. Those are just some of the nuggets of information Michael Moss feeds readers in his new book about the food industry, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us . But while the book is sprinkled with food facts, Moss doesn't just want to entertain.

THE SO-CALLED "Sugar- Daddy Doctor" - a retired gynecologist busted in 2010 for throwing raging, drug- and alcohol-filled house parties for teenagers and allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl - is in trouble again, police say. Tawfil Nakishbendi, 63, was arrested last week after police searched his home on Quentin Street near Vicaris Street in Wissahickon following allegations from a 28-year-old woman who rented a room from him that he had taken photos...

The Falls Township sugar plant where a man died Monday after falling into a sugar vat had recorded 10 worker safety violations in 2010, according to records from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The violations - six listed as serious, four in the category "other" - ranged from hazards involving personal protective equipment, record-keeping issues, and problems with fire extinguishers, records show. The violations were recorded during an inspection by the agency when the plant was located in Swedesboro.

A worker died after he fell into a sugar hopper Monday afternoon at an industrial plant in Bucks County, authorities said. Janio Salinas Valerda, 50, of Edgewater, N.J., was pronounced dead at the CSC Sugar plant at 80 Roebling Rd. in Falls Township, said Joseph Campbell, the Bucks County coroner. The sugar hopper was not functioning correctly, and Valerda apparently was trying to unclog it with a large pole from a catwalk when he fell in, Campbell said. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was investigating.

A WORKER in Bucks County was killed Monday after plummeting into a vat at a sugar- processing facility, police said. The male victim was traversing a catwalk when he fell into the vat at the CSC Sugar plant, on Roebling Road in Fairless Hills. Police said that he was missing for about an hour before CSC staff discovered him. "We're assuming that it was some kind of accident," said Lt. Henry Ward, of the Falls Township police. "We think he may have had a medical emergency or slipped and fell.

A 50-year-old worker died after he fell into a sugar hopper Monday afternoon at an industrial plant in Bucks County, authorities said. Janio Salinas Valerda, of Edgewater, N.J., was pronounced dead at the CSC Sugar plant at 80 Roebling Road in Falls Township, said Joseph Campbell, the Bucks County coroner. The sugar hopper was not functioning correctly, and Valerda apparently was trying to unclog it with a large pole from a catwalk when he fell in, Campbell said. Police said he was missing for about an hour before CSC staff discovered him. "We're assuming that it was some kind of accident," said Lt. Henry Ward of the Falls Township police.

CLOSE to a dozen ministers crowded the entrance to Steen Outdoor Advertising, in Southwest Philly, on Tuesday to protest a billboard that makes a cheeky edit to the Seventh Commandment. "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery," reads the ad, on Interstate 95 near Allegheny Avenue, for an online adult sugar-daddy/mistress-matching service, with the "Not" artfully crossed out. Debra Hamilton, head of sales and marketing at Steen, said that her company is just as upset as the demonstrators and that it can't review the content of the hundreds of contract ads that it runs.