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Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Michael Moss
3.72 AVERAGE
203 reviews for:
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Michael Moss
3.72 AVERAGE
DNF @ 70% - I am really interested in topics about food, eating, diet culture, the food industry, and I want to read multiple perspectives, but I just wasn’t getting anything out of this & I have better stuff to read.
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This was interesting for the most part, though due to it jumping around quite a lot some bits felt a bit surface level (though admittedly this may be because it is emerging research). The food industry stuff was good but at times there were so many studies and various things being quoted I now find it hard to recall the main points just because they weren't always hammered home in a memorable way. It was less engaging in parts, and for me the audiobook suffered from being read by a very "American ad man" voice which was grating.
If it interested you at all I would highly recommend Ultra Processed People which is both more engagingly written and absolutely fascinating (as well as somewhat terrifying/anger inducing).
If it interested you at all I would highly recommend Ultra Processed People which is both more engagingly written and absolutely fascinating (as well as somewhat terrifying/anger inducing).
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Hooked starts off fast... then slows down... then speeds back up again to the finish.
A masterful and engaging depiction of how our free will isn't really all that free when it comes to foods from the food giants. Between our biology and the food industry's willingness to exploit that biology to its own profitable ends, we're pretty much doomed from the start.
A masterful and engaging depiction of how our free will isn't really all that free when it comes to foods from the food giants. Between our biology and the food industry's willingness to exploit that biology to its own profitable ends, we're pretty much doomed from the start.
I found the authors writing style easy to read. This book leaves me with a couple of hints on how to curb my own food cravings, although just reading some of it made me want to eat. I have to wonder how people who work for processed food companies can live with themselves.
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder
Very interesting discussion of various food studies and addiction. Recommended for fans of his other book Sugar, Salt, Fat (a book that completely changed the way I eat!) but not a required pre-requisite. In summary: companies who produce processed food know what they are doing. We like what we eat more than we eat what we like and companies track our habits and adapt to trends.
Okay, so I might go back to this at some point. For now, it’s a DNF. The writing and research is as amazing as Moss’s last book. And I found the ties to the tobacco industry and evolutionary biology interesting. But the more I found out, the more angry I felt haha.
So I would still recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about the origins and ties of food addiction studies, evolutionary biology and relation to food, and the food industry! Well written!
So I would still recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about the origins and ties of food addiction studies, evolutionary biology and relation to food, and the food industry! Well written!
informative
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