Junk Food: Specifically Designed to Be Addictive: The New York Times Magazine’s feature piece coming to doorsteps this weekend (and the internet yesterday) is an adaption of reporter Michael Moss’ forthcoming book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. The piece details the techniques that the huge corporations behind the junk food industry of America employ to keep people eating their products. A striking line early on in the article pretty much says it all: “What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort —taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles— to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.” Moss interviewed people at all levels of the industry, from a food engineer who works with companies to find the “bliss point” (the formula that will produce the most cravings in consumers) of product recipes, to top scientists and CEOs. He leaves hardly a salty, fatty chip unturned.

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    Don’t you love being manipulated?
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    Damn junk food why you sooo good
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    …more reason to eat paleo!
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    This is awful, but unsurprising.
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    long article, but it’s definitely worth
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    America’s Test Kitchen originally brought me to the NYTimes article. It is outstanding, I must tell you. The sheer...
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    Read it if you want to be reassured that clean eating is the right thing to do. (Yoplait has twice as much sugar as...
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    Shocking but not surprising.
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