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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
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder
I’ve read so many of these books now that they blur into each other. The food industry is there to screw us over, make us eat more and become unhealthy. Then another of their branches can force diet foods on us. Don’t eat ultra processed foods and don’t drink your calories. Easy to advise to give, and expensive to follow. I ditched the last of the UPF’s a few weeks ago and I have drunk the last Coke of my life. You know there is salt in it, right, to make you thirstier! Just check the label for sodium. And no, the zero sugar drinks aren’t any better for you. It only took a few days before I was fine with just water again.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
An eye opening read, although the book could become a little too repetitive. One of the more surprising things was how food giants had their hands in popular dieting programs like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, all for the sake of figuring out how to sell food products without losing customers. And while it’s not doling out tips on how to eat healthy, Moss does give us enough insight on how the food giants’ tactics are geared to attract us in stores.
I would definitely recommend trying the audiobook! The narrator made this book much more engaging for me than just reading the ebook alone.
I would definitely recommend trying the audiobook! The narrator made this book much more engaging for me than just reading the ebook alone.
"yikes" and "wow" were said a lot while listening to this one!
I am a huge fan of books about food and I really enjoyed Moss's previous work so I was very excited to read this one. I was not disappointed at all. This book was really fascinating both for its food aspects as well as its information on addiction. This book is definitely going to be added to my Non-fiction shelf.
3.5/5 - There is a sense of repetition from his first (& better) book but swapping additives in for sugar, salt, and fat. I still learned some inner workings of Big Food and how our evolutionary desires are well-equipped to resist easy, fast, and varied flavors in processed food.
Interesting look into food psychology and the ways hyper processed foods were introduced to the human diet. Lacks the practical punch of avoidance tactics that would push this to a must read. Without that, I think it’s just interesting for people who are into the facts and trivia surrounding Big Food.
fast-paced
If you liked Moss's book 'Salt, Sugar, Fat,' this migrates the conversation from engineered food products in the supermarket to fast food and convenience foods on the go. Looks at food from the angle of addiction, which I think is very valid, given the amount of meddling that goes into a lot of the food products we buy.