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He is known for his efforts to regulate cigarettes, and his involvement in modernizing nutrition facts labels on packaged food. Weve gone through some kind of a metamorphosis over the years. Kessler, 57, a harvardtrained doctor, lawyer, former yale medical school dean and onetime commissioner of the u. Feb 17, 2011 the end of overeating is a fascinating dissection of how food affects the brain and how those who want you to buy their products choose to manipulate those effects. Since encounting this work, i cannot enter a restaurant with my old attitudes at all. The end of overeating this book reveals how the american food industry has harnessed the chemistry of sugar, salt and fat to make us eat too much, too fast and too often. Even if he has to say it a very large number of times. Mon, october 11, 2010 former food and drug administration commissioner dr.
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