What if it’s the food—and not you—that’s to blame for America’s obesity epidemic?
The national conversation surrounding this question has heated up with the publication of Michael Moss’s new book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
But Moss isn’t the first to make the case that the food industry has hijacked our brains and trained our taste buds. In 2009, in his groundbreaking book The End of Overeating, David Kessler, MD, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, exposed the truth about America’s junk-food addiction. Armed with hard science, Kessler went behind the scenes of Big Food and revealed exactly how the industry gets in your head to ensure that you “can never eat just one.” His unprecedented investigation bucked the prevailing thought that people are increasingly overweight because they lack the willpower to control their eating.
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