Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked Us

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 8, 2013

Pulitzer Prize–winning The New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moss describes the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. In Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us he reveals how companies create foods to addict us--from the food science labs to the marketing campaigns--and how the industry would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat.

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