Hooked shows how food manufacturers have taken advantage of our habits, our biology, our psychological quirks, and our ignorance to transform foods into addictive substances. succeed brilliantly in evidencing the systematic venality of corporate junk food and drink interests * The Guardian * blends investigative reporting, science and foodie writing to argue that the processed food industry is no different from tobacco companies * New York Times *Ĭhilling. Publisher: Ebury Publishing ISBN: 9780753556320 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 504 g Dimensions: 245 x 165 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĮxcellent. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits.Ī 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. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry - including major companies like Nestle, Mars, and Kellogg's - has not only tried to hide the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it.

Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products and ways to exploit our evolutionary preference for fast, ready-to-eat foods.

Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover the shocking ways that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. 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.

'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 HabitĮveryone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a 'gripping' ( The Wall Street Journal) expose 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.

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