Food Addiction and the Path to Real, Positive Change

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Food, Culture, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Professors—and ultraprocessed food experts—Ashley Gearhardt and Kelly Brownell join Mark and Kate to talk about why the robust new science about food and addiction is going to be hard to ignore, how junk food could take the path of cigarettes and opioids with regards to litigation (and how tobacco paved the way), and why marketing these foods to kids is so successful (and the many reasons why kids are so important to focus on).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Food. I'm Kate Bitman. Our very quick audience survey is still up and running, so if you have a minute, please let us know what you think. You'll find the link in today's show notes. And remember, we're always around if you feel like reaching out with feedback or questions. Food at markbitman.com.
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0:27.1	plus personal essays, reporting, and opinions about everything food.
0:32.6	Last week, we had Erica Huell extolling the virtues of vegetable cutlets.
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2:10.1	All of a sudden, at least it seems that way to me, talk of UPF, or ultra-processed food, is everywhere.
2:15.6	As the daughter of one of your favorite food writers, I've been hearing about UPF, junk, as Mark likes to call it, forever.
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