{"product_id":"9780753556320","title":"Hooked : How Processed Food Became Addictive","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Moss, Michael, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/03\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: W H Allen,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Ebury Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Food \u0026amp; society, Popular science\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780753556320\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eEveryone 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 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 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. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39671518757017,"sku":"9780753556320","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780753556320.jpg?v=1617459135","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780753556320","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}