#FoodManufacturing #TobaccoCompanies #Addiction #Hyperpalatable

They took what they learned from tobacco and applied it to their food manufacturing.

“We used multiple sources of data to examine the question, ‘In what ways were U.S. tobacco companies involved in the promotion and spread of hyperpalatable food into our food system?’” said lead author Tera Fazzino, assistant professor of psychology at KU and associate director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at the KU Life Span Institute. “Hyperpalatable foods can be irresistible and difficult to stop eating. They have combinations of palatability-related nutrients, specifically fat, sugar, sodium or other carbohydrates that occur in combinations together.”

Fazzino’s previous work has shown today that 68% of the American food supply is hyperpalatable.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1000520?fbclid=IwY2xjawFYU8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHd3SOyYLyVfW6UAhx5uFvdQ9oTicYfyd6gvshAJIVvC6UqwxYg5P0XKMmA_aem_Jsv2uABF2x6w58it2mNCgw

Study shows food from tobacco-owned brands more 'hyperpalatable' than competitor's food

An investigator at the University of Kansas has conducted research showing food brands owned by tobacco companies — which invested heavily into the U.S. food industry in the 1980s — appear to have “selectively disseminated hyperpalatable foods” to American consumers.

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#Tobacco #Food #Addiction #Hyperpalatable

Remember when the cigarette companies were getting into real trouble in the 1980"s and they began divesting?

I sure do and this is what they did after that.

This issue doesn't get a lot of attention unless we are looking for it. I was obese most of my 30's-late 50's and though I didn't use fast food, once I took full control over what I ate---I lost 80 pounds and been maintaining 74 pounds as of today.

I'm not perfect, but avoiding as much processed food as possible. They are killing us.

https://neurosciencenews.com/hyperpalatable-foods-big-tobacco-23906/

Big Tobacco’s Legacy: Pushing Hyperpalatable Foods in America - Neuroscience News

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Which will last longer? The frenzied fear of #UltraProcessed and #HyperPalatable foods or the seasonal love for #PumpkinSpiceLattes – which turn out to be both ultra-processed and hyper-palatable?
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/09/ultra-processed-hyper-palatable-pumpkin-spice-lattes/
Ultra-Processed, Hyper-Palatable Pumpkin Spice Lattes - ConscienHealth

Uh oh. It seems we’ve been seduced by hyper-palatable, ultra-processed pumpkin spice lattes that will surely spell our doom.

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#FoodIndustry #Hyperpalatable #TobaccoCompanies #FoodAddiction

I've been talking about this fir years, ever since I lost 80 pounds amd really understood food addiction, as it applied to me, at least. Our country could do so much better.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1000520?fbclid=IwAR2iMyjimoJxvgmy3vTeHb64RctkFXcS0TmJdWItOgke3WKsXa0Fm5N1hfc

"Fazzino and her co-authors found between 1988 and 2001, tobacco-owned foods were 29% more likely to be classified as fat-and-sodium hyperpalatable and 80% more likely to be classified as carbohydrate-and-sodium hyperpalatable than foods that were not tobacco-owned."

Study shows food from tobacco-owned brands more 'hyperpalatable' than competitor's food

An investigator at the University of Kansas has conducted research showing food brands owned by tobacco companies — which invested heavily into the U.S. food industry in the 1980s — appear to have “selectively disseminated hyperpalatable foods” to American consumers.

EurekAlert!

Zusammenhänge zwischen „#BigTobacco“ und „#BigFood“ zeigt eine neue #Studie auf. Danach haben #Tabakkonzerne sich ab den 80ern vermehrt in #Lebensmittelkonzerne eingekauft und ihr Konzept des Abhängigmachens dort erfolgreich weitergeführt. Die Folgekosten trägt wie immer die Allgemeinheit.

#hyperpalatable #JunkFood #Addiction

https://science.orf.at/stories/3221145/

Link zur Originalveröffentlichung (englisch):
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16332

Tabakkonzerne: Erst Zigaretten, dann Junk Food

In den 1990er Jahren ist die Zahl der Raucherinnen und Raucher in den Industrieländern gesunken. Tabakfirmen investierten darauf hin nicht mehr nur in Zigaretten, sondern auch in die Lebensmittelindustrie. Von ihnen übernommene Firmen stellten in Folge deutlich mehr – ebenso – ungesundes Junk Food her als andere Vertreter der Branche, wie eine neue US-Studie zeigt.

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New research tells us that #HyperPalatable food is the real driver of #obesity and thus, we have a policy imperative to make food unpleasant. Maybe the fans of #FoodIsMedicine are onto something!
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/04/the-imperative-to-make-food-unpleasant/
The Imperative to Make Food Unpleasant - ConscienHealth

New research pinpoints hyper-palatable food as the primary driver of obesity and suggests an imperative to make food unpleasant.

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