For instance, in a 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.

Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry has not only tried to deny this troubling discovery, but exploit it to its advantage. Our bodies are hard-wired for sweets, so food manufacturers have deployed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying we've evolved to prefer convenient meals, so three-fourths of the calories we get from groceries come from ready-to-eat foods. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food.In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific and medical communities-as well as food manufacturers-already know, which is that food can, in some cases, be even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113įrom the #1 bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat, the troubling story of how food companies have exploited our most fundamental evolutionary instincts to get us hooked on processed foods.Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet.

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