Hooked

How Processed Food Became Addictive

By: Michael Moss

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 the shocking ways 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 56 types of sugar to add to their products and ways to exploit our evolutionary preference for fast, ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry - including major companies like Nestlé, Mars and Kellogg's - has not only tried to hide the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. 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.

©2020 Michael Moss (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Does not repeat the first book!

Well, it repeats a little bit, but most of the info is new. This is great for a return listener like me.

Lots of eye opening information

Packed full of research based information. Reaffirms previous information I have read of the dangers of too much processed food in ones diet. I love that it finished on a positive note to empower us to slowly take back control of what we eat.