Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Rise of Consumer Culture; 3 The Psychological Effects of Consumer Culture; 4 Food, Money, and Consumer Culture; 5 How the Food Industry Uses Psychology to Trick Us (and Why We Let Them); 6 Sugar and Sweet; 7 Hyperpalatable Foods, Hormones, and Addiction; 8 Binge Eating Disorder, the DSM, and Consumer Culture; 9 The Bedfellows of Consumer Culture: Big Food and Big Pharma; 10 The Regulation of Well-Being: FDA and the Nanny State; 11 Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
