Exploring the Science Behind Processed Food Addiction: Hooked

Mary K. Hyatt: While the beginning is slow, persevering paid off. Many of the points made are explained well & support the suspicions I’ve had about the food industry for a long time.

United States on Nov 16, 2023

Dr. Pn Gromkova-mateva: perfect

United Kingdom on Aug 24, 2023

Mackenzie: I seriously couldn’t put this book down. I would recommend this book to anyone learning more about processed foods!

United States on Aug 13, 2023

Kindle Customer: In his first book Moss stuck to the facts. In this book he follows the same with the exception of his Darwinistic theory rants about our cravings and the reasons for them. Evolution is theory friends not fact. The book would be better without such nonsensical talk.

United States on Aug 04, 2022

Carolina: Fantastic!!!
Thanks writer

Italy on Aug 08, 2021

Virat SharmaVirat Sharma: This books picks up the thread left in his previous book and gives us an insight into how our own biology works against us.
" It is not that we have changed it's just that the food is changed by the companies ". And we are biologically drawn to food.
A decent read but the quality of Indian edition book is not upto the mark. The paper quality is poor. Otherwise, a decent read.

India on Jul 23, 2021

Sherry Bess: Great food for thought! Although most of us know that the food industry studies human eating habits, many of us probably don’t know to what extent that happens. This book takes you into the labyrinth of how the industry hooks us and explains how it is up to us to take back our individual control over eating.

Spain on May 25, 2021

Northeast Ohio: This is a fine enough book but it doesn't go into a study of addictions to food but more talks about it. A disturbing part of the book is chapter 4 where the author takes a dimwitted departure down the rabbit hole of the 'poof there it is theory', better known as the theory of evolution. This is a ridiculous departure and totally unnecessary for the purposes of this book. It could have been written without the authors conjuring of stories about chimps who learned to stand upright to see over grass for better food. (What did they do before they could stand up to avoid starvation? Order pizza?). His glossing over science and blaming our eating habits on evolution and the species quest for a bigger brain is bizarre. It was like watching the news or an episode of Lance Lot Link. Very disappointed in that part of the book, but aside from chapter 4 it is an easy read and you will learn something about the food industry and how they make us crave food, especially fast food. However the chaperone evolution was ridiculous and if you want a serious discussion about the silliness of evolution from a non-religious person, I would read David Berlinski.

United States on May 07, 2021

R. E. Coleman: I gave this a 5* rating because it answered so many questions I had, I've been told so often food addiction isn't real just an excuse for being "weak willled" so it was refreshing to have scientific confirmation that like Ardi I'm driven to eat high calorie sweet foods, and that i just have to avoid temptation rather than trying to say no.

Australia on Apr 27, 2021

Roy Murry, Author: HOOKED

Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants exploit our Addictions

MICHAEL MOSS

Review by Author Roy Murry

HOOKED is an explosive read that will have your brain spinning. There are no conclusions into why humans are addicted to food, alcohol, or drugs, only expert opinions.

Mr. Moss gives an excellent case that the major food producers manipulate their products' formulas to control human consumption and sales. However, the center of human addictions to food cannot ultimately indict them.

As he notes, paraphrased: Humans have been unwitting conspirators in letting them exploit all the ways that we're drawn to their food. We have a choice as to what we eat, whether it's processed food, i.e., a jar of spaghetti sauce, or cooking it from scratch, as I do.

Mr. Moss cites the use of price, ease of purchase, taste (Salt, Sugar, and Fat) are the ways major food producers control human eating habits. They spend millions to perfect that marketing program to keep humans HOOKED on their product lines.

His case is solid but does not convict those manipulators, in my opinion. HOOKED is full of opinions, as with what you put in your...

United States on Apr 22, 2021