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For many people, our biology makes the pull of ultra-formulated foods nearly impossible to resist, says the writer.
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David A. Kessler
Throughout my life, I’ve been fat, thin and various sizes in between. Since I was a kid, I’ve gained and lost weight repeatedly, putting on 9kg, taking it off, putting on 13kg, and then losing it again. It has been a cycle of despair.
The fact that I’m a doctor, a former dean of two medical schools and ran the Food and Drug Administration for six and a half years was of no help to me. Like millions of others, I was caught between what the food industry has done to make the American diet unhealthy and addictive, and what my metabolism could accommodate.
