Resources
The books, documentaries, and studies that will sharpen your understanding — and fuel your resolve.
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Michael Moss
The definitive investigation into how the food industry hooks us. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism that exposes the science of bliss points, the 1999 CEO meeting, and industry manipulation.
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Michael Moss
Moss's follow-up digs deeper into the science of food addiction, exploring how ultra-processed foods exploit our evolutionary biology and why "everything in moderation" doesn't work with engineered products.
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Chris van Tulleken
A doctor and BBC presenter investigates what ultra-processed food actually does to our bodies. Includes his own self-experiment eating 80% UPF for a month — with brain scans showing the damage.
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Eric Schlosser
The original exposé of the fast food industry. Covers the flavour industry, marketing to children, and how corporate greed shaped the modern food supply.
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Mark Schatzker
How artificial flavours created a world where real food tastes bland and fake food tastes incredible. Explores why a tomato from 1960 and a tomato today are fundamentally different experiences.
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Katie Couric narrates this devastating look at how the food industry and government policy created the obesity epidemic. Focuses heavily on sugar and corporate lobbying.
An Australian documentary where the filmmaker eats a "healthy" diet of foods marketed as low-fat and nutritious — and discovers the hidden sugar content is destroying his health.
The original fast food exposé. Morgan Spurlock eats only McDonald's for 30 days and documents the physical and psychological effects.
Ultra-processed food addiction (BMJ, 2023)
Read the study →Hidden sugars in food labels (UCSF SugarScience)
Read the research →How junk food is engineered to be addicting (Fast Company)
Read the article →How the food industry helps engineer our cravings (NPR)
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