Michael Moss

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Michael Moss is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss food addiction, the invention of processed food, and what government oversight of the food industry would look like. Michael and Dax discuss free will when it comes to diet, how big food companies use marketing tactics to influence our choices, and that obesity is a crude measure of health.Michael explains the phenomena of dieting and how income inequality affects people's access to healthy food. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to arm chair expert experts on expert. I'm Gail Burnham and I'm joined by Joe Strider.
0:08.0	Hi Joe. Hi Gail. Did you say you're a Gail? Yeah, Gail Burnin.
0:13.5	Is that what I said?
0:14.5	I don't know.
0:15.5	If you get my new name straight, everyone's going to hate this episode, okay?
0:18.5	Also love it.
0:19.5	It's so interesting.
0:21.6	And it's bad news. That's why you're going to hate it.
0:24.0	Michael Moss is incredible. He's a number one New York Times best-selling author and
0:28.0	Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. His previous book, which was
0:31.8	radical, was Salt Sugar Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked
0:34.7	us. And his new book Hooked Food Free Will and How the Food Giants exploit our addictions.
0:42.1	Now everyone knows how hard it is to maintain a healthy diet, but what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control?
0:48.5	Is it possible that food is addictive like drugs or alcohol and to what extent does the food industry know or
0:55.1	care about these vulnerabilities. Michael sets out to answer these questions and
0:59.6	to find the true peril in our food.
1:02.8	I would say this episode's delicious.
1:05.1	I guess I could.
1:06.6	Well, gal could.
1:07.8	This episode's delicious.
1:09.6	Enjoy Michael Moss.
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