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just-juan-postonSep 17, 2020

> Finally, sweets and junk food in America are like crack.

They are literally engineered this way and companies spend billions on the process.

Everyone should read the book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (2014)

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...

TrisMcConAug 13, 2018

"Salt Sugar Fat" by Michael Moss is a great book around using the trifecta to manufacture addictive "food".

metametonMay 9, 2017

And it doesn't help that the industry specifically designs foods to not fill you up, so you continue to eat more.

Check out Salt Sugar Fat if you haven't read it yet. Good stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...

appwizonDec 12, 2016

"Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00985E3UG/) by Michael Moss is highly recommended if you want to learn about the prevalence of sugar in processed food.

intopiecesonJune 26, 2020

Some books you might benefit from reading on this topic:

“Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”

“The Attention Merchants” by Tim Wu

jasodeonNov 10, 2017

The Michael Moss book "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"[1] really opened my eyes to how the cereal giants hooked kids and their parents on sugar. It's eerily similar to the tobacco companies manipulation of nicotine.

It explains how manufacturers make clever misdirections away from sugar such as adding verbiage about "fortified with 20 essential vitamins" on the box. It's insidious because the companies are preying on parents' intentions to feed their kids something nutritious when in fact, the very opposite happens. Excess sugar is causing obesity, early diabetes, and cavities.

A healthy alternative for breakfast is slow (not instant) cooked oatmeal with no sugar added. (If the kids absolutely have to have something sweet, cutting a few slices of fruit is better than dumping sugar into it.) I've been eating that every morning for decades with no weight gain.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...