August 14, 2013
In this week’s TLS
A note from the Editor
We should perhaps not be adding to the discussion of obesity at this time of the year. The evidence on the summer streets and beaches is reminder enough of what men and women can do to their bodies or, as Barbara J. King describes this week, what the food industry has too often cajoled, encouraged and bribed them to do. King is reviewing three books that show, in different ways, how sugar, salt and fat make us want to eat sugar, salt and fat. A cycle of desire connects “allure” and “bliss points” and can send consumers “over the moon”. Every food problem is a food industry opportunity. Parental fear of processed meats leads to three-year-olds beating a billion-dollar path to a place where, at some summer in the future, they will not want to be.
