Food Makers Captured Our Brains Summary

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“How the Food Makers Captured our Brains” by Tara Parker-Pope the author tells us that food takes over our mind because when we want it our body gets up and gets it. For example the doctor left his house and there was 2 cookies on the table when he left and he came home for a break and had a coffee and gobbled one of the cookies.
Cookies have something in it there makes them so irresistible to people.to their taste buds because he sugar-ey flavor they have and the sweet taste that they have. The way they cook the cookies that brings the fats and the sugar flavor out of them. most junk food has the same ingredients in it and it makes the junk food irresistible to anybody.
Due to all of this there is more fat people in the world unlike their

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