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Hooked : Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions by Michael Moss is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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. 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. 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. For instance, in a response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets,

Who reads Hooked : Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions?

Author

Michael Moss

Publisher

Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771059599

Category

business

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (1,020 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14