date:Nov 18, 2019
It sounds like a mass conspiracy at first: food companies have figured out a way to manufacture foods that are just the right amount of sweet, salty or fatty and now we can't stop eating them. Unfortunately, it's not that far from reality.
The term hyper-palatable foods (HPF) isn't necessarily new. In a 2009 interview with The New York Times, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. David A. Kessler, describes how conditioned overeating is less a matter of willpower and more a