Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive — And It’s Making Us Sick
Foods with unnaturally high levels of sugar and salt keep Americans snacking their way to obesity.
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner is a writer based in New York. She is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She’s written for the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamour, AlterNet, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Architectural Digest, Them and other publications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and is also at work on a novel. Follow her on Twitter: @melissabethk.
Foods with unnaturally high levels of sugar and salt keep Americans snacking their way to obesity.