#FoodManufacturing #TobaccoCompanies #Addiction #Hyperpalatable

They took what they learned from tobacco and applied it to their food manufacturing.

“We used multiple sources of data to examine the question, ‘In what ways were U.S. tobacco companies involved in the promotion and spread of hyperpalatable food into our food system?’” said lead author Tera Fazzino, assistant professor of psychology at KU and associate director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at the KU Life Span Institute. “Hyperpalatable foods can be irresistible and difficult to stop eating. They have combinations of palatability-related nutrients, specifically fat, sugar, sodium or other carbohydrates that occur in combinations together.”

Fazzino’s previous work has shown today that 68% of the American food supply is hyperpalatable.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1000520?fbclid=IwY2xjawFYU8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHd3SOyYLyVfW6UAhx5uFvdQ9oTicYfyd6gvshAJIVvC6UqwxYg5P0XKMmA_aem_Jsv2uABF2x6w58it2mNCgw

#Tobacco #Food #Addiction #Hyperpalatable

Remember when the cigarette companies were getting into real trouble in the 1980"s and they began divesting?

I sure do and this is what they did after that.

This issue doesn't get a lot of attention unless we are looking for it. I was obese most of my 30's-late 50's and though I didn't use fast food, once I took full control over what I ate---I lost 80 pounds and been maintaining 74 pounds as of today.

I'm not perfect, but avoiding as much processed food as possible. They are killing us.

https://neurosciencenews.com/hyperpalatable-foods-big-tobacco-23906/

Zusammenhänge zwischen „#BigTobacco“ und „#BigFood“ zeigt eine neue #Studie auf. Danach haben #Tabakkonzerne sich ab den 80ern vermehrt in #Lebensmittelkonzerne eingekauft und ihr Konzept des Abhängigmachens dort erfolgreich weitergeführt. Die Folgekosten trägt wie immer die Allgemeinheit.

#hyperpalatable #JunkFood #Addiction

https://science.orf.at/stories/3221145/

Link zur Originalveröffentlichung (englisch):
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16332