Tricked Into Eating More: How The Food Industry Lies To You | Hooked on Food | Only Human

My mother was way ahead of her time. She knew of the bad affects of sugar in the 60s. We ate no junk, sugary foods or processed foods and now, I have a very low sweet tooth. I felt deprived as a kid as my friends at sugary cereals etc. but now I am grateful.

I come from a family of diabetics. 2 days after i cut out soft drink from my diet i was getting sever headaches and i was craving it like mad. Believe me. Sugar is as addictive as any drug.

What makes me angry is the food industry knows what they are doing. They pay a lot of money to psychologists to find ways to promote sales.

"We don't eat what we need, we eat what we like" that was really powerful. Had we ate what we needed there would be no wastage nor hunger.

I don't believe it's an accident that veggies are so expensive in the US. If you can, grow your own and trade with others. My family has always done this, trade corn for peppers or broccoli, etc.

As a recovering drug addict/alcoholic I can say without a doubt that it is much harder to quit sugar than quit drugs. As long as I stay way from certain places and people I don’t have to worry about the drugs. The constant reminder of sugar in everything we eat just wears me out after a while and I finally give in. It much harder to get back on track.

The way the nutritionist explained sugar and food like cocaine is completely true. As long as the big corporations are making $$$$$$$ nothing will change. Stop buying their foods and then the big corporations will change.. it’s in the consumer’s corner now.

I've cut out processed foods and sugars and its the best decision I've ever made in my life. I still WANT these things, but as time passes, I feel it has less and less hold over me

I live in indonesia where processed foods are super expensive. Frozen pizza in supermarket costs 4$. Meanwhile a healthy lunch consisting of rice, fish and veggies from street vendors is only 1$. Soda is 1$ per bottle. Warm ginger tea from traditional market is only a third of that price. You have to be very rich to live on nothing but processed foods here

I’m so grateful that the UK has stricter guide lines as to what can be put in our food. McDonalds USA fries have 14 ingredients, the UK equivalent have just 4. I only have white sugar in my house for guests tea & coffee. I don’t even use it in baking any more. We were poor as kids and ate what ever we were given but I’m lucky that I don’t like sweet food. Its never too late, start using food as medicine, your body will thank you and you’ll live longer.

I won't eat oreo cookkes cause if I eat 1 cookie it's over. Then I'll eat a whole package all at once. All or none.

In Germany, a lot of products come with a rating system pasted on the package. Rate from A to E, E being the worst in terms of nutrition. It is great.

I was born and raised in an African country. When I travel abroad even the normal bread tastes sweet!

The funny thing is most junk food eaters will never watch documentaries such as these. All awareness videos are usually consumed by people who are already aware. Unfortunate but true. EDIT: Folks, there are exceptions to this rule, so take it easy.

I grew up eating bologna sandwiches, those prepackaged cheap ramen noodles, and sugary cereals. I tried so many new foods when I moved away from home and gradually changed my taste buds over the years and began to enjoy eating healthy. I had a hiccup when I moved back home and reverted back to my old eating habits and gained 50lbs and could feel the stark difference in the way my body feels when eating healthy versus not. Got back to eating healthy and am constantly berated by family members because I choose to eat differently and they've even tried to convince my child not to eat vegetables while giving her junk food. They are unfortunately stuck eating unhealthy and despite their growing health concerns they refuse to change

I went a day without any sugar - I’d ended up with a horrible headache and it felt like I was dissolving from the inside out. That was quite the eye opener, getting rid of an addiction is no joke!

The thing I notice is that the people in the French overeaters support group would look slim in the UK and US. From my experience the French haven't normalised being over weight like those countries.

It enrages me when the corporations say, “It’s your personal responsibility to not eat our food.” Meanwhile they relentlessly advertise and pump more and more sugar in. Where’s the responsibility of these corporations to put a safe product into the stream of commerce? Where’s the corporation’s responsibility in obesity problems? I take it as a dare. One day we’ll cause them all to go bankrupt.

This should be shown in schools to our children. They are the ones who will suffer the most if they continue to be poisoned by this barrage of junk food. It's not even food really, because it has virtually no health benefits. It's a misnomer to call it food to begin with. Well done everyone.

When he's talking about the cart/basket situation in the grocery store, interestingly I'm the opposite. If I use the hand basket, it keeps me more aware of what I'm buying and limits how much I buy, and since I'm shopping for the week, I don't have room in the basket for things such as ice creams or candy bars when I need to include bread, milk, and other dietary staples. This might also have to do with the fact that I don't drive, so when I use the basket I'm also acutely aware of how much I'm going to have to carry on the walk home, as well as I'm only shopping for myself and not for a family, so it's possible to carry a week's worth of food in the one basket. If I grab a cart, though, I find I do engage more in buying more food, and foods that I don't need that might be more unhealthy because that concern for how much space it's taking up is gone.