Book
Moss M. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. New York: Random House; 2021. 304 p.
Why we cite it
Follow-up to Salt Sugar Fat, examining how processed food companies exploit addiction-like mechanisms in the brain. Investigates the overlap between food cravings and substance addiction, and how industry has optimized products to trigger compulsive eating.
About the author
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. Former reporter for The New York Times. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010. Author of Salt Sugar Fat (2013/cfp01) and Hooked (2021). His investigative work focuses on the food industry’s practices and their impact on public health.
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