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Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a gripping (The Wall Street Journal) expos of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health.The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobaccowhich is why Michael Mosss new book is so important.Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of HabitEveryone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questionsand to find the true peril in our food.Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communitiesas well as food manufacturersalready know: that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fiftysix types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; weve evolved to prefer fast, convenient meals, hence our modernday preference for readytoeat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industryincluding major companies like Nestl, Mars, and Kelloggshas tried not only to evade this troubling discovery about the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. For instance, in response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets, filling grocery stores with diet foods that are hardly distinguishable from the products that got us into trouble in the first place. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits.A gripping account of the legal battles, insidious marketing campaigns, and cuttingedge food science that have brought us to our current public health crisis, Hooked lays out all that the food industry is doing to exploit and deepen our addictions, and shows us why what we eat has never mattered more.
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