"Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us" by Michael Moss

Joe Donahue — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:12:00 +0000

Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, Michael Moss, from The New York Times joins us to tell the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic.

Moss reveals how companies use Salt, Sugar, and Fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.

"Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig

Joe Donahue — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:50:00 +0000

In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, our next guest says the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. Dr. Robert Lustig believes the result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control.