"Hyperprocessed, Convenient Food Products Can Be as Addictive as Cigarettes, Alcohol and Drugs"

"Regaining control of our eating habits is tough business. But given how effectively the processed-food industry has learned to manipulate our desires and habits, we have to find ways to defend ourselves against unhealthful eating, which drives much of the chronic illnesses that plague nearly half of all Americans." 

Michael Moss at the Los Angeles Times writes "much of what’s being sold at the grocery store and fast-food restaurants is more seductive than we knew."