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  • Everyone 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 Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions—and to find the true peril in our food.

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AuthorMichael Moss
PublisherRandom House
Publication dateMarch 2, 2021
Print length278 pages
Customer Reviews4.5 out of 5 stars / 773 ratings
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a "gripping" (The Wall Street Journal) exposé 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 Tobacco—which is why Michael Moss's new book is so important."—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

Everyone 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 Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions—and to find the true peril in our food.

Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communities—as well as food manufacturers—already 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 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 fast, convenient meals, hence our modern-day preference for ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry—including major companies like Nestlé, Mars, and Kellogg's—has 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 cutting-edge 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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It's ridiculous what fast food restaurants are putting out now. Should be illegal
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I can't remember the last time I was in the snack aisle at the grocery store. Maybe for some protein granola and nuts. Stick mostly to produce and meat and you should be fine. It doesn't have to be boring like broccoli, chicken, and rice like a bodybuilder would do. I make so many delicious meals with my instant pot ranging from Indian, to French, to Colombian, to Italian. It can be good and not be super processed. If you don't keep junk snacks in your house, then it wont be there for you to eat it.
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Oh also I found a really good way to avoid going to the snack aisle is to just pick up curbside. If you can be disciplined with just order exactly what you need for the week, you don't even have to step in the store to be tempted to get things you don't need.
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If the Fast Food conglomerates are trying to get me hooked on their food they're doing a terrible job at it.

All fast food is farking disgusting.
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Well, it mentions fat, but the issue is less that than the explosion of ultra-high glycemic carbohydrates the food industry throws at us, while demonizing natural fats (of course man-made fats are awful). Yes those carbs also includes corn syrup and artificial sweeteners that triggers the brain to want to eat even more.
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