At no point in history has humans been so bombarded by stuff designed to get us hooked. Companies compete on the basis of creating evermore habit-forming products.

Food is no different. Food corporations hire scientists to engineer habit-forming foods. The brain imaging t...

As long as food corporations aren't breaking narcotics laws, they can formulate their products any way they want and make them even more habit-forming. 

Coco-cola was formulated in the 1880s. At one time, the coca-cola corporation was forced to change its recipe as cocaine was made illegal...

When it comes to processed food and sugar, we're all living in an obstacle course. Habit-forming foods are on every corner in your grocery store. Besides the rising obesity worldwide, what is more concerning is the appearance of adult diseases in children.

• Type-2 diabetes is linked to ...

Educating the public in healthy choices doesn't work. 48% of Americans are still drinking a sugary drink or more a day. 

In a sugar-saturated environment, you'll probably reach for what is within your reach, and if it's a concentrated source of pleasure that is carefully engineered to get y...

• Soda companies intentionally keep their prices down so we'll buy more. If we put a tax on this soda, that raises the price a little and nudges us away.
• Food corporations bombard our children with advertisements for Captain Crunch and Cocoa Puffs. We can take ...