137. Are We All Addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Is your favorite treat changing your brain? Why do so many snacks melt in your mouth? And why can’t Stephen replicate his favorite salad dressing? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/

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0:00.0	I had a cow that once had chocolate milk.
0:04.2	You're saying that wasn't anomaly?
0:05.6	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:07.9	I'm Stephen Dubner.
0:08.9	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:12.4	Today on the show, our ultra-processed foods addictive?
0:16.0	Oh man, the food industry is really running the show.
0:20.1	Angela, last week we talked about
0:29.8	sloth.
0:30.8	And we should say, the seven deadly sins are a sort of canonical list created within the
0:36.6	architecture of the Catholic Church.
0:38.8	But we're not talking about them really.
0:41.6	We're talking about the modern versions of them.
0:43.6	So last week we started with sloth, which was I thought a crackling good time.
0:48.9	I don't know if you agree.
0:50.8	I do.
0:51.8	And we may be picking the juicy ones to start with.
0:54.4	They're all juicy.
0:55.4	Seven deadly sins.
0:56.8	Yeah, I guess.
0:57.8	There it's a full juice bar.
0:59.2	I don't know.
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