His next book, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions is being published by Random House on March 2, 2021. His work has ranged widely from exposing the corporate interests in nursing homes to the Pentagon's failures in providing soldiers with armor, and now focuses on the food industry in the context of health, safety, nutrition, politics, marketing, and the power of individuals to gain control of what and how they eat. And now that more and more people are caring about what they're put in their bodies and are wanting to eat healthier, these companies are finding it really difficult to meet that new demand because of their own addiction, if you will, to making these convenience foods.Michael Moss is the author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist formerly with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, a keynote speaker, and a guest on shows like CBS This Morning, CNN The Lead, ATC and the Daily Show.

the problem lies in, kind of, their own dependence on making their products inexpensive and super yummy and incredibly convenient for us. These are companies doing what all companies want to do - make as much money. I've been crawling through this industry for 10 years now, and I still resist the idea of looking at them as this evil empire that intentionally set out to make us obese or otherwise ill on their products. On if the food industry is knowingly trying to get us addicted It enabled us to put on some body fat, which enabled our brains to grow and us to get through hard times and have more babies.

We by nature are drawn to food that has calories, because for much of our previous existence, getting calories was a life or death thing. On why we are naturally drawn to high-calorie foods

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