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Stat 2 — Your Food Is Engineered To Override Your Willpower In 1980 the obesity rate in America was 15%. Today it's over 40%. And for decades we were told the same thing. People are lazy. People have no self control. People make bad choices. But here's what was actually happening. Food scientists a…

Stat 2 — Your Food Is Engineered To Override Your Willpower In 1980 the obesity rate in America was 15%. Today it's over 40%. And for decades we were told the same thing. People are lazy. People have no self control. People make bad choices. But here's what was actually happening. Food scientists at major corporations spent billions of dollars and decades of research figuring out the exact combination of salt, sugar, and fat that short circuits your brain's ability to feel full. They called it t