Doctor David Kessler: Fat Salt Sugar Alter Brain Chemistry, Make Us Eat Junk Food ..Washington Post

[Stuart G]

How the Food Industry and the Fast Food Industry Hook Us...
read this...It is old, but answers our nation wide problem of obesity..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602711.html

David Kessler: Fat, Salt and Sugar Alter Brain Chemistry, Make Us Eat Junk Food


David Kessler researched part of "The End of Overeating" by diving into dumpsters behind restaurants to look for the nutritional labels of menu items high in fat, salt and sugar. (By Eric Risberg -- Associated Press)

The former head of the FDA says certain foods alter brain chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat. (By Christina Koci Hernandez For The Washington Post)


By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 27, 2009

He went in the middle of the night, long after the last employee had locked up the Chili's Grill and Bar. He'd steer his car around the back, check to make sure no one was around and then quietly approach the dumpster.

If anyone noticed the man foraging through the trash, they would have assumed he was a vagrant. Except he was wearing black dress slacks and padded gardening gloves. "I'm surprised he didn't wear a tie," his wife said dryly.

The high-octane career path of David A. Kessler, the Harvard-trained doctor, lawyer, medical school dean and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had come to this: nocturnal dumpster diving. Sometimes, he would just reach in. Other times, he would climb in.

It took many of these forays until Kessler emerged with his prize: ingredient labels affixed to empty cardboard boxes that spelled out the fats, salt and sugar used to make the Southwestern Eggrolls, Boneless Shanghai Wings and other dishes served by the nation's second-largest restaurant chain.

Kessler was on a mission to understand a problem that has vexed him since childhood: why he can't resist certain foods.

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This long article spells out this nationwide problem.."I can't stop eating it."...and this is not some half wit moron..This is one of the most highly admired individuals in this country..Former commissioner of FDA, appointed by first Bush and Clinton..went after the Tobbaco Industry..what a read..you know someone got a food problem..can't stop..this is it..

[handmade34]

1. worth the read

"The End of Overeating"

[SunSeeker]

2. It's always pissed me off that there are no truly healthy fast food joints.

Although better than McD's or KFC, Subway does not cut it. They still have cookies sitting there next to the register and all kinds of gloppy sauces they add. There's a health food stores scattered around town, and there's the occasional health food based restaurant, but it's not right on the corner, every corner, like fast food is. It is impossible to avoid, especially if you have kids.

[Zoeisright]

3. Yep. As addictive as heroin.

http://www.fyiliving.com/diet/nutrition/food-addiction-research-why-you-get-a-sugar-high/

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/09/05/study-junk-food-as-addictive-as-heroin-cocaine/

[Stuart G]

4. I couldn't believe it..so I tested it myself..

Took a product with salt, sugar, and smooth fat and started to eat it...

..that product is called, "Wheat Thins" ..a cracker... .couldn't stop eating them

then I took a product with cane sugar, wheat, some flavoring, no salt..no smooth fat. more sugar thant he Wheat Thins.
but no salt. A cereal with small bits of shreaded wheat and cinnamon...no reaction. could eat a few..and put them down..

It was probably the salt and sugar combo that was addictive in Wheat Thins..and I am not the only one that has those
reactions...many of us cannot stop eating some foods..the food makers look for that reaction in their test subjects..before
they sell the stuff..(anyway, that is my belief and the author of this book)