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- The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.”
[Adapted from “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” by Michael Moss, an investigative reporter for The Times.]
The public and the food companies have known for decades now that sugary, salty, fatty foods are not good for us in the quantities that we consume them. So why are the diabetes and obesity and hypertension numbers still spiraling out of control? It’s not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
I talked to more than 300 people in or formerly employed by the processed-food industry, from scientists to marketers to C.E.O.’s. Some were willing whistle-blowers, while others spoke reluctantly when presented with some of the thousands of pages of secret memos that I obtained from inside the food industry’s operations.
What follows is a series of small case studies of a handful of characters whose work then, and perspective now, sheds light on how the foods are created and sold to people who, while not powerless, are extremely vulnerable to the intensity of these companies’ industrial formulations and selling campaigns.
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- Embedded sports scientists and doctors walk an ethical tightrope – The Conversation
ABC Online Embedded sports scientists and doctors walk an ethical tightrope The Conversation The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) findings about the actions of “specific coaches, sports scientists and high-performance staff” in condoning or…
- Tarred with the same brush: what do sports scientists do?
Sports scientists have taken something of a media beating over the past week following revelations of alleged widespread illegal doping across Australian professional sporting codes.
- Sports science: time for proper accreditation
Stephen Dank, the man at the centre of Essendon drug scandal has been widely quoted in the media as a sport scientist or performance scientist.
- The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Neurobonkers | Big Think
A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions. The report is quite a heavy document so…
- Designing eLearning For ipads
Find about emerging need of eLearning on iPads, learn how to get started with it as a first step towards ‘mobile learning’.
- Youth Sports: A Lesson on Coaching Styles from My Dog | Eric …
In youth sports, you have to be a good friend before you can be an effective coach. … Show and Go: High Performance Training to Look, Feel, and Move Better. Buy Now! - Revealed: What 200 calories looks like in different foods – and the results are very surprising
WiseGEEK photographed what we’ve all wondered: 200 calories worth of broccoli equals how many gummy bears?
- BMJ Group podcasts: British Journal of Sports Medicine podcast » Blog Archive » Professor Malcolm Collins on genomics in sports medicine: A role in talent identification or a role in sports injury …
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- X Prize: making the Tricorder a reality (Wired UK)
X Prize is fuelling a race to make the Tricorder a reality
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