Hooked

For a long time, public health experts thought that if Americans were better at making healthy food choices, obesity wouldn’t be such a problem. But investigative journalist Michael Moss argues that we humans are wired to crave highly processed foods. And in his new book "Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addiction," he says that food manufacturers are exploiting that information to keep us eating. (Originally aired March 24th, 2021)