8 ways the food industry hijacks your brain

[Warpy]

Overeating doesn't only affect people who are overweight

In the 21st century the food industry is creating and marketing unhealthy food in much the same way that tobacco companies manufactured and sold cigarettes in the 20th century.


But overeating doesn’t only affect people who are overweight. In fact, more than 70 million Americans have become conditioned to overeat, and it affects people of all different weights. Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former head of the Food and Drug Administration who took on big tobacco in the 1990s, now takes on the food industry in “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” (Rodale, 2009). In his book, Kessler pulls back the curtain to reveal how the food industry and its scientists really operate.


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Nice, informative article supplementing the films on the food industry out there now. If this doesn't get y'all cooking, I don't know what will.

[BadgerKid]

1. I had a Big Mac in Vancouver, BC

recently. It tasted pheNOMinally better than those I've had in the US in recent years. The meat actually tasted and felt like meat, IMO.

[lk9550]

8. Really?

Another reason to move up north then.

[Mist]

2. I've seen this book rec'd elsewhere. Just put it on reserve at my local library. Should be

very informative.

Edited to add: To Badger--it really pisses me off how they reserve the *worst* for us here in the US!

[Warpy]

3. European friends tell me they can't eat most meat here

because all they can taste is fat and chemicals. Chicken is especially awful, I guess.

I know I started to taste a plastic undertone in chicken starting about 10 years ago and it's been off the menu since then save for maybe once or twice a year, free range only.

I really can't do fake food any more. I'm just glad I learned how to cook.

[Mist]

4. When I first moved to Charleston (over 20 years ago), I started going to a small

neighborhood grocery, that sold locally raised chicken. Damn, they were good--and I realized how flavorless and same-y chicken tasted when bought at the supermarket. Even chicken from Whole Foods doesn't come up to the chicken at that small market.

[Warpy]

5. I just spotted a small halal market about a mile from my house

that just opened up. I'm thinking of trying their stuff.

Kosher's too far away.

[question everything]

6. I am biased against David Kessler

When he was the head of the FDA he spent his resources raiding supermarkets fridges for orange juice that said "fresh" while it was from concentrate, instead of approving a drug for Alzheimer's patients because it would... affect their liver.

[Big Blue Marble]

7. I agree with you. He was overly zealous about the wrong things.

Yet this book is an eye opener. I do not eat fast food or in corporate restaurants.
I still learned so much about how the food manufacturers attempt to manipulate us
for profit. This is an important book which will get attention because of who
Dr. Kessler is. More and more people will start to realize how we are being played
for chumps in one more way.