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Welcome to diet season. The idea at the heart of every diet is that if you’re fat, it’s solely your fault. But what if that simply isn’t true? Yes, sedentary lives have expanded our waistlines, but so too have the multi billions of dollars that the food industry pump into feeding us lies year after year.
The vicious circle is pernicious. Food scientists’ engineer crave-able products that have ‘bliss points’. Consumers lose control of their eating habits and then their will power. Self blame kicks in and then self-esteem plummets. In order to temporarily escape those understandable negative feelings, consumers find themselves back at the food store.
Renegade Inc host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with author of Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Michael Moss, to discuss how food has increasingly become an intrinsic part of a profitable industry that’s detrimental to our health.
- Broadcast on 30 December 2019 -
Read all about it here: renegadeinc.com/food-inc-snack-crack-and-pop
Read and download transcript here: renegadeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Food-Inc.-Snack-Crack-and-Pop.pdf
All full episodes also on renegadeinc.com/shows/renegade-inc
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We find people who are thinking differently and offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts.
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Welcome to diet season. The idea at the heart of every diet is that if you’re fat, it’s solely your fault. But what if that simply isn’t true? Yes, sedentary lives have expanded our waistlines, but so too have the multi billions of dollars that the food industry pump into feeding us lies year after year.
The vicious circle is pernicious. Food scientists’ engineer crave-able products that have ‘bliss points’. Consumers lose control of their eating habits and then their will power. Self blame kicks in and then self-esteem plummets. In order to temporarily escape those understandable negative feelings, consumers find themselves back at the food store.
Renegade Inc host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with author of Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Michael Moss, to discuss how food has increasingly become an intrinsic part of a profitable industry that’s detrimental to our health.
- Broadcast on 30 December 2019 -
Read all about it here: renegadeinc.com/food-inc-snack-crack-and-pop
Read and download transcript here: renegadeinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Food-Inc.-Snack-Crack-and-Pop.pdf
All full episodes also on renegadeinc.com/shows/renegade-inc
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Renegade Inc. is an independent media platform established in 2006.
We find people who are thinking differently and offer an alternative perspective on business, leadership, economics, education and the arts.
Support us by subscribing here bit.ly/1db4xVQ
Watch our documentary Four Horsemen here: youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU
- Donate to us here renegadeinc.com/about/support
- Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/RenegadeEcon
- Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/RenEconomist
