SIO406: How Science Made Food Too Addictive

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dawn Fariello, a lecturer at Fordham University who helped develop their popular course The Ecology and Economics of Food Systems, joins the show today to walk us through cravings and how our body's response to sugar is being weaponized by, you guessed it, capitalism.

Sources:

Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Random House trade Paperbacks. 2014. https://mossbooks.us/

Lenoir M, Serre F, Cantin L, Ahmed SH (2007) Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward. PLOS ONE 2(8): e698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000698

Bijoch, Ł., Klos, J., Pawłowska, M. et al. Whole-brain tracking of cocaine and sugar rewards processing. Transl Psychiatry 13, 20 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02318-4

Samaha, AN. Sugar now or cocaine later?. Neuropsychopharmacol. 46, 271–272 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-00836-z

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 406. I'm your host, Thomas Smith,
0:21.2	and we got another fun one because today we're talking to Dr. Don Ferriello about how food
0:29.4	corporations have really dialed in that chemical process to make stuff as fucking addictive as
0:36.3	possible for us. It's a huge problem. Don's got some of the scientific information there as to how
0:42.4	that actually works, a little bit of the history and all that, and it's a fascinating discussion.
0:47.7	So let's find out why sugar is basically cocaine for us. So really looking forward to that.
0:56.8	As always, before we get there, please go to patreon.com slash series pod and support the show. If
1:02.0	you'd like to avoid the auto ad you're about to hear. And also we had our hangout just today.
1:07.2	Boy, that was so much fun. Played a lot of code names again. Check that out next month for those
1:11.8	top two Patreon tiers. And I can reveal this. The seriously awful movies number four is not a movie,
1:19.0	but it's an episode of House. That's right. I was forced to watch the first fucking episode of House
1:26.0	I've ever watched. Really not a fan did not like that. But we watched it with a doctor. And that
1:34.1	was a lot of fun. So that episode, that seriously awful movies bonus for November will be over to
1:42.3	you within a few days here when we can get edited. But that was so much fun. I can't wait for you to
1:48.0	hear it. So all good reasons to be on patreon.com slash series pod. And again, reminder, not the least
1:53.9	of which is avoiding these stupid auto ads, which you're going to hear right now or not if you're a
2:00.4	Don. Welcome to the show. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thanks, Thomas.
2:04.4	Oh, I am so excited for this one. This is one where we saw the pitch and we're like, yes,
2:08.9	I want to know more about this. We're going to talk about food. We're going to talk about sugar.
2:13.2	But before we do that, why don't you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and how you
2:17.1	got into this? So my name is Dr. Don Ferriello. I am a lecturer at Fordham University. And I teach
2:24.8	in the biology department. My background is actually nothing to do in food.
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