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Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Book • 2013
In this book, Michael Moss delves into the strategies used by major food companies to create products that are highly appealing and addictive.
He explores the concept of the 'bliss point,' where scientists calculate the optimal combination of sugar, fat, and salt to maximize consumer desire.
Moss also uncovers marketing techniques borrowed from the tobacco industry and reveals how these practices contribute to the obesity epidemic.
The book is based on meticulous research and interviews with industry insiders, providing a detailed and often unsettling look at the processed food industry's impact on public health.
He explores the concept of the 'bliss point,' where scientists calculate the optimal combination of sugar, fat, and salt to maximize consumer desire.
Moss also uncovers marketing techniques borrowed from the tobacco industry and reveals how these practices contribute to the obesity epidemic.
The book is based on meticulous research and interviews with industry insiders, providing a detailed and often unsettling look at the processed food industry's impact on public health.
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Mark Hyman when discussing the food industry's creation of addictive compounds in food.
Mark Hyman when discussing the food industry's creation of addictive compounds in food.
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Mark Hyman: How to Live Your Healthiest Life
Mentioned by Mark Hyman as a book that explores the impact of salt, sugar, and fat on health and addiction.
Mark Hyman as a book that explores the impact of salt, sugar, and fat on health and addiction.
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14 "Foods" To Avoid For Better Health
Mentioned by Arjun Singh as a seminal book revealing how food companies manipulated public understanding of nutrition.
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RFK’s Beef With Big Food
Mentioned by Mark Hyman in the context of a meeting of fast food and processed food makers in the late 50s.
Mark Hyman in the context of a meeting of fast food and processed food makers in the late 50s.
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America’s Food Supply Is Rigged—Here’s How to Opt Out | Vani Hari & Dr. Shebani Sethi
Mentioned by Dr. Mark Hyman when discussing the impact of ultra-processed foods on health and the economy.
Mark Hyman when discussing the impact of ultra-processed foods on health and the economy.
Why the Last Thing You Should Ever Eat is Ultra Processed Foods: It Kills 11 Million People a Year
Mentioned by Vinnie Tortorich as a book he read around the time his daughter was looking at colleges.
Fake Fat Foolishness - Episode 2658
Mentioned by Rip Esselstyn in the context of how food companies use salt, sugar, and fat to create highly palatable but unhealthy foods.
Rip Esselstyn: In Plants We Trust
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Dr. Stephen Cabral when discussing the biochemicals released when we eat certain foods.
Dr. Stephen Cabral when discussing the biochemicals released when we eat certain foods.
1910: How to Uncover Hidden Hormone Imbalances With Dr. Stephen Cabral
Mentioned by Mark Bittman as the best book on the subject of manipulating food to make it addictive.
141. A New Model for Food and Politics -- Mark Bittman
Mentioned by Kea Perowit as a best-selling book discussing the food industry's use of salt, sugar, and fat to create addictive products.
Why Food Companies Make Unhealthy Products, And What We Can Do About It
