Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

By John M. Pogue. 2014

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Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “Rather than offering healthier food, for example, food processors have opted to produce products laden with salt, sugar and fat that stimulate overeating and thereby maximize dividends for stockowners (Moss 2013).”
Obesity: a chronic relapsing progressive disease process. A position statement of the World Obesity Federation (2017, background): “Tasty, low cost, convenient foods are abundant in the western diet (52,53).”
Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain: An inpatient randomized controlled trial of ad libitum food intake (2019, background): “…they are typically high in calories, salt, sugar, and fat (Poti et al., 2015) and have been suggested to be engineered to have supernormal appetitive properties (Kessler, 2009; Moss, 2013; Moubarac, 2015; Schatzker, 2015) that may result in pathological eating behavior (Schulte et al., 2015, 2017).”
Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity (2018, background): “The increase in obesity prevalence over the past several decades has been mirrored by industrialization of the food system,(7) involving increased production andmarketing of inexpensive, highly processed foods with supernormal appetitive properties.(11,12) Ultraprocessed foods(13) now contribute mos”