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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
Didn't make it very far, not as engaging as his first book.
informative
slow-paced
A lot of interesting info here. I got a little bogged down in some of the details, but others may enjoy that about it.
One of the most enlightening books I've read. Read it a couple months after going vegetarian and it's helped motivate me to stick with my new diet and also realize why I've felt the way I have since I removed meat from my diet, specifically with getting cravings that are difficult to resist, as if I am going through withdrawal. One of my favorite books ever.
So here's the thing... *rant intensifies*
During the pandemic the obesity epidemic flourished. The majority of people who struggled with excess fat in the past have gained noticeably more fat mass in the past year and a half. Everyone now joins together in jokes about specific foods and snacks they'd relished in during the stay at home. We've found and/or reconnected with specific brands, and thought of them positively, despite knowing this foods were the cause for fat gain!
Obviously, this book seemed like it had all the answers. I was really excited to read about advertising and the way our brain responds. Clearly the trauma of the pandemic experience was used against us by advertisers sending us into a comfort food frenzy. How exciting it would be to read this book written with the most up to date science available.
And this book delivers... to a point. We get the science! Though some of the mentioned studies I recognized off the bat as having been thrown into question recently. (one 2016 study was countered in 2017, enough time for the author to know about the second study). But still, the science is interesting. The history of processed food companies responding to consumer interest is fascinating to reflect on.
Yet. The language in this book is sooo tedious sometimes! And the author often speaks directly to the reader like a buddy saying "hey. These companies work so hard to make sure we gooble down their milkshakes doesn't that suck bro?" and in the early to mid chapters, it seems like he's trying to be motivational. Like someone who is bringing all this information to you but is also going to have some positive light. He doesn't. The argument you are left with is something along the lines of: "Fat people are generically inclined to be fat. And adults who loved fattening foods at children are also doomed to be fat. The food companies AND our genes are to blame. Sucks huh?!"
and then the book ends. If literally kind of just ends...
This is takeaway is even more insulting considering the author is thin. And he makes sure to mention that he is so thin that a researcher suggests having the author participate in a study on thin people... Yeah it's a yikes from me. 3 stars because idk. There were some lines in there that made me think of my mother in law like crazy. I used to think she was intentionally self sabotaging herself to infuriate us but this book did make me sit and consider her addiction
During the pandemic the obesity epidemic flourished. The majority of people who struggled with excess fat in the past have gained noticeably more fat mass in the past year and a half. Everyone now joins together in jokes about specific foods and snacks they'd relished in during the stay at home. We've found and/or reconnected with specific brands, and thought of them positively, despite knowing this foods were the cause for fat gain!
Obviously, this book seemed like it had all the answers. I was really excited to read about advertising and the way our brain responds. Clearly the trauma of the pandemic experience was used against us by advertisers sending us into a comfort food frenzy. How exciting it would be to read this book written with the most up to date science available.
And this book delivers... to a point. We get the science! Though some of the mentioned studies I recognized off the bat as having been thrown into question recently. (one 2016 study was countered in 2017, enough time for the author to know about the second study). But still, the science is interesting. The history of processed food companies responding to consumer interest is fascinating to reflect on.
Yet. The language in this book is sooo tedious sometimes! And the author often speaks directly to the reader like a buddy saying "hey. These companies work so hard to make sure we gooble down their milkshakes doesn't that suck bro?" and in the early to mid chapters, it seems like he's trying to be motivational. Like someone who is bringing all this information to you but is also going to have some positive light. He doesn't. The argument you are left with is something along the lines of: "Fat people are generically inclined to be fat. And adults who loved fattening foods at children are also doomed to be fat. The food companies AND our genes are to blame. Sucks huh?!"
and then the book ends. If literally kind of just ends...
This is takeaway is even more insulting considering the author is thin. And he makes sure to mention that he is so thin that a researcher suggests having the author participate in a study on thin people... Yeah it's a yikes from me. 3 stars because idk. There were some lines in there that made me think of my mother in law like crazy. I used to think she was intentionally self sabotaging herself to infuriate us but this book did make me sit and consider her addiction
informative
Felt less organized than Salt, Sugar, Fat but still had great research.
informative
medium-paced
informative
I didn't find that I was learning anything new or exciting as I had expected.