213. How the Food Giants Hooked Us feat. Michael Moss

It’s no secret that the nature of our food has been changed quite dramatically by big food companies in the last 50 years. This is just one of the things that has contributed to a nation of overeaters.

Michael Moss is the author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” and “Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions.” He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist formerly with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

So what has changed in those 50 years? Listen as Michael and Greg talk about the evolution of processed foods, the biological science behind addiction, how food memories develop, Lunchables, and the business of cigarettes and smoking.