This book is an experiment in how many times someone can repeat the same concept in different ways.

It sells itself as being a look inside the food industry and food culture, as well as the science of appetite and overeating, but most of the book focuses simply on the fact that popular restaurants and snack food these days layer fat, sugar, or salt together.

The author also has this idea that being overweight is pretty much solely a result of something he calls hypereating-- just eating snacks repeatedly. Which ignores the whole aspects of what artificial things like HFCS and aspartame do, and the fact that different calories are actually processed by the body in different ways, and that portion size is so so important (which he does touch on, but only briefly).

I was also kind of annoyed that the last fifth or so of his book trod dangerously close to a weird kind of self help-- especially since he recommended negative self talk as a way to eat less. So, maybe you'll end up depressed and hating your body-- but hey, you'll skip a snack! What?

I would not recommend anyone read this book as an intro to food industry critiques because even though it has some good stuff in it, the bad totally outweighs it.