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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.

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Mark Hyman
when discussing the food industry's manipulation of consumer preferences.
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Mark Hyman
to understand the food industry's methods of creating addictive foods.
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Mark Hyman
when discussing the food industry's creation of addictive compounds in food.
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Justin Mares
in the context of food companies engineering addictive foods.
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Mark Hyman
when discussing the deliberate creation of highly addictive foods.
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Tai Lopez
as an insane book on the science of food and how food scientists engineer junk food.
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Jamie Wheal
in the context of how the food industry has hacked the bliss point.
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Josh Clark
as a book that discusses market researcher Howard Moskowitz's work.
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Mark Hyman
as a book that explores the impact of salt, sugar, and fat on health and addiction.
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as a seminal book revealing how food companies manipulated public understanding of nutrition.
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Mark Hyman
in the context of a meeting of fast food and processed food makers in the late 50s.
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Mark Hyman
when discussing the impact of ultra-processed foods on health and the economy.
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Vinnie Tortorich
as a book he read around the time his daughter was looking at colleges.
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Mark Hyman
as documenting the food industry's creation of addictive foods.
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Mark Hyman
when discussing the impact of ultra-processed foods on health.
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Rip Esselstyn
in the context of how food companies use salt, sugar, and fat to create highly palatable but unhealthy foods.
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Marty Kendall
as a book that details the history of the processed food industry.
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Tristan Harris
when discussing a book about Lunchables.
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Dr. Stephen Cabral
when discussing the biochemicals released when we eat certain foods.
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Mark Bittman
as the best book on the subject of manipulating food to make it addictive.
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