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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Science is only starting to grasp how our brains react to food.
Chapter 3: Your brain governs appetite, yet addiction can end up ruling it.
Chapter 4: Your childhood eating patterns continue to influence you today.
Chapter 5: You evolved to relish a broad range of high-calorie foods.
Chapter 6: Modern families now rely on unhealthy food that’s quick to make.
Chapter 7: Reducing calories in processed foods may not fix the problem.
Description
Hooked (2021) explores our complex relationship with processed food. It explains why certain foods leave us wanting more, and reveals how our brain chemistry and our evolutionary biology are exploited by the fast-food industry.
Who Should Listen
Parents wanting to give their children a healthy start
Anyone struggling to lose weight
Psychology buffs looking for fresh insights
About the Authors
Michael Moss is an investigative journalist and author. In 2010, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on contaminated hamburgers. His previous book Salt, Sugar, Fat, was a New York Times best seller.