Welcome to the Doctors' Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and this week's guest is Michael

Moss, an extraordinary investigative journalist from the New York Times who wrote a book called

Salt, Sugar, and Fat, exposing the food and street tactics to keep us hooked and sick

and fat. He's on coming up next so stay tuned.

So welcome to the Doctors' Pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and I'm really excited today

to have an extraordinary guest, Michael Moss, a reporter for the New York Times who's

really had an extraordinary career. He's a prize-winning journalist. He wrote a book

which I love called Salt, Sugar, and Fat, how the food giants hooked us. It was a number

one New York Times best seller published in 2013. Amazing book. Everybody should get a copy.

He's really working on another book which I'm excited to read which we don't know when

it's coming out yet but it's called Hooked Food and Free Will which is an important

topic because if we are hooked and addicted to food it's hard to have free will. When food's

addictive personal responsibility I think is a fiction. From 2000 to 2015 he was an investigative

reporter with New York Times mostly reporting on the process food industry and in 2010 he won

the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting on his investigation on the dangers of contaminated

meat. His hamburger article was a centerpiece of a bodywork focused on surprising and troubling

holes in the food system to keep food safe. Before joining the Times Mr. Moss was a reporter

for the Wall Street Journal in New York, News Day and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He

was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his reporting on the lack of protective

armor for soldiers in Iraq and in 1999 for a team effort on Wall Street's emerging influence

on the nursing home industry. He received an overseas press club citation in 2007 for

stories on the faulty justice system for the American held detainees in Iraq. Mr. Moss has been an

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