What if that “can’t stop eating” feeling isn’t about willpower, but design?

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Moss has spent years inside the boardrooms, factories and labs where our food is being engineered, and what he’s discovered will change the way you think about food.

In this full conversation, we dig into how processed food is crafted to override your appetite, what food giants don’t want you to know about nutrition “research,” and why breaking free from these cravings is harder than you think.

💡 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How the food industry deliberately designs products to be irresistible

• The tricks companies use to shift blame for overeating onto you

• Why “health halos” and marketing slogans keep us confused

• The science behind food addiction and whether we can break it

• What Moss believes has to change for us to eat more freely

🎧 Featuring:
📚 Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Sugar, Fat and Hooked → mossbooks.us

If you’ve ever felt like you can’t stop eating certain foods, or you’ve wondered why your willpower never seems enough, this episode will change the way you think about what’s on your plate.

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From grandma’s kitchen to Ozempic - how eating got so complicated.

This condensed version of the full-length documentary unpacks the surprising history behind food confusion, the tricks used by the diet and processed food industries, and what GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic really mean for the way we eat.

💡 In this quick listen, you’ll learn:

• The surprising moment eating stopped being simple

• How “healthy” food marketing rewired your appetite

• The one thing food companies can’t sell you (and why it’s the answer)

📖 Chapter Timestamps:
00:00 Why food feels confusing now
02:00 The moment diet culture took over family meals
06:00 How processed food became addictive by design
11:00 The wellness halo and misleading “healthy” marketing
14:30 The Ozempic question
17:00 Why listening to your body is the radical act food companies can’t monetise

🎧 Featuring:

🔬 Prof Marion Nestle on how food companies shape what we believe about health → foodpolitics.com

📚 Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat & Hooked

🧠 Christy Harrison, dietitian and journalist behind Anti-Diet & The Wellness Trap

💉 Dr Nick Fuller from Interval Weight Loss on how GLP-1s like Ozempic actually work

📖 Dr Lauren Samuelsson, food historian, on how The Women’s Weekly shaped modern diet culture → UOW profile

If you’ve ever felt confused about food, struggled to trust your appetite, or wondered why eating feels so fraught, this one’s for you.

💌 Related episodes:

• Ditch Food Guilt with Dr Emma Beckett

• Raising Kids with a Healthy Relationship with Food (even if you don't have one) with Leslie Schilling

• The Secret to Motivation & Exercise with Leah Barron

• Ditch the Diet & Become the Healthiest You EVER
  
  
• How to Empower Your Kids with Body Neutrality with Taryn Brumfitt

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What if your struggle with food isn’t a personal failing, but the result of a system designed to confuse you?

In this episode, we explore why eating has become so complicated, and how diet culture, food marketing, and processed food science have reshaped our relationship with hunger. From the rise of “health halos” and moral food messaging to the explosion of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, we ask: can we ever trust our bodies again?

You’ll hear from leading voices in nutrition, food history, and medicine — including Marion Nestle, Michael Moss, Christy Harrison, Dr Nick Fuller, and Dr Lauren Samuelsson as we trace how corporate influence, gendered food messaging, and engineered cravings have distorted how we eat.

💡 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why food became tied to morality and how that began over 2,000 years ago

• How 1970s diet culture and convenience food rewired our appetites

• What the food industry doesn’t want you to know about nutrition “research”

• Why some foods feel literally impossible to stop eating

• Whether GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are really a miracle or just the latest quick fix

🎧 Featuring:

🔬 Prof Marion Nestle on how food companies shape what we believe about health → foodpolitics.com

📚 Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Salt Sugar Fat & Hooked

🧠 Christy Harrison, dietitian and journalist behind Anti-Diet & The Wellness Trap

💉 Dr Nick Fuller from Interval Weight Loss on how GLP-1s like Ozempic actually work

📖 Dr Lauren Samuelsson, food historian, on how The Women’s Weekly shaped modern diet culture → UOW profile

If you’ve ever felt confused about food, struggled to trust your appetite, or wondered why eating feels so fraught, this one’s for you.

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