Hooked Quotes

“Most of us are finding ourselves unsettled by food in one way or another; we’re feeling not quite in control of our eating, or we’re taxed by the effort it takes to exert that control; we’re anxious that our appetites are doing us more harm than good, or we sense a disconnect between what we think we want and what our bodies need; we’re feeling the loss of the beauty, resonance, and rituals of food as it was, before we fell so hard for the convenience and other allures of the highly processed.”
― Michael Moss, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

“For the vast majority of people, dieting just doesn’t work. It fails because of our physiology; the body plays a game of sabotage by lowering its metabolism or otherwise undercutting our efforts. It fails because life intervenes, with layoffs or new babies or sick parents. It fails because no amount of willpower can be sustained forever.”
― Michael Moss, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

“That left women not only with less time to sit down for breakfast; they also had less time to cook. Just as critically, it disrupted the cadence of planning and shopping, which can be the harder part of preparing meals from scratch.”
― Michael Moss, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions