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🗓️ 30 July 2025
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The food we eat – especially the junk food – is a highly engineered technical marvel that’s designed to make you want nothing other than more! more! more! Learn about how food scientists make that possible by hijacking our brains.
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0:39.2 | Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. |
0:40.9 | Josh, Chuck, Jerry, not Dave, but Dave still anyway, short stuff. |
0:45.3 | That's right. |
0:46.1 | Another banger of a job by you. |
0:48.9 | Thanks to your research with Science of Food Journal, the marketing Sage, optimizing nutrition across the margin, |
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1:03.3 | Yeah, they were all very good resources |
1:05.0 | because this is kind of like a wide-ranging topic. |
1:08.3 | We're talking about bliss, the bliss point, which is essentially what food scientists have |
1:14.3 | come up with to make you eat and crave junk food ceaselessly. |
1:20.1 | Yeah, you have a pretty startling stat here out of the gate. The average American consumed, |
1:25.6 | and this was a few years ago in 2022, 126.4 grams of sugar a day, |
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