Summary Of The Science Of Junk Food

In the article “The Science of Junk Food” written by New York Times reporter, Michael Moss. He explains the science behind junk food and how it becomes an addiction. It starts off by introducing the meeting that was on April 8,1999 which was held by James Behnke at the Pillsbury headquarters. This meeting involved 11 men, these men controlled America's largest food companies. The reason behind this meeting was that Behnke had grown very concern over america's overweight outbreak and how the main contributors to this were these companies. He was hopeful they could find a solution to this by agreeing with these companies to make a change. Months prior to meeting with these 11 companies Behnke who has a doctoral degree in food science had a conversed with a group of food-science experts (472) something that was brought up was the fact that some of these processed food had gone too far to make the consumer more hungry as well as their way of marketing their products to the public. When the day came for the meeting vice president of
Mudd went ahead and introduced a solution to this overweight issue. The plan was to pull back from salt, sugar, and salt. Also that they be more honest about their advertisement. Once Mudd stopped speaking it was said the CEO of General Mills, Stephen Sanger response was that General Mills made products for those who were concerned about their diets. Sanger went ahead and said that people bought what they liked and they liked what tasted good.(476) he would not be risking to change those products that made the company so successful and he encouraged everyone else to do the same. This response ended the