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The Dorito Effect
- The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
- Narrated by: Chris Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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The Dorito Effect
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Publisher's Summary
In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number-one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs. Instead we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor - the tastes we crave - and the underlying nutrition.
Since the late 1940s, we have been slowly leeching flavor out of the food we grow. Simultaneously we have taken great leaps forward in technology, allowing us to produce in the lab the very flavors that are being lost on the farm. Thanks to this largely invisible epidemic, seemingly healthy food is becoming more like junk food: highly craveable but nutritionally empty. We have unknowingly interfered with an ancient chemical language - flavor - that evolved to guide our nutrition, not destroy it.
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- Henry Payne
- 10-02-2023
Book is great. Narration not so much.
Very strange cadence in the narration. Odd pauses of the narrator to try emphasise words that really don't need to be there. It's as almost as they are reading a children's book.
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- Tom S
- 19-03-2016
Informative and entertaining
I found lots of interesting information on this book and it was also really entertaining. The performance was done to the same standard as the book itself: excellent!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-11-2019
Absolutely fascinating
A real insight into our complex relationship with food, why we over eat and how we can re-establish our innate wisdom about what we need to eat for optimal health. Both scientific and entertaining. A refreshing must-read for all foodies and anyone wanting to curb their junk food cravings. Loved it.
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