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Are You A Bit Addicted to the “Holy Trinity” of Salt, Sugar and Fat?

With health of Americans rapidly declining as quickly as their girth is expanding, the junk food industry is under the microscope. What investigators are uncovering is reminiscent of the tobacco industry: Addicts are good for profits. Watch.

Saturated by Fat and TV News? Get Simple!

the Salt/Sugar/Fat trilogy is the intoxicating recipe to give a fast jolt (yeah, add caffeine to the mix) of brain-soothing dopamine neurotransmitters. It’s a heaping of short-run pleasure. In the case of TV programming, it’s the play to the primal instincts of tribalism — us against them — rather than a search for commonalities and consensus. Modern “food” and media are essentially forms of entertainment; the kind that play to instinctive, but base, attitudes and senses.