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Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of the books Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions . He explains that food addiction is not our fault but we can break out of it. Here are some links to additional reading Moss recommends: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters by Gordon Shepherd Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener…
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Solvable
Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture · English
Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solv
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S3 · E12 · 28 Jul 2021 · 22 min
Disordered Eating and Disconnection From Your Body are Solvable Problems
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S3 · E9 · 7 Jul 2021 · 16 min
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S3 · E7 · 23 Jun 2021 · 18 min
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S3 · E6 · 16 Jun 2021 · 28 min
Under-Representation in Robotics and AI is Solvable
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