The Dorito Effect

Another book about food! This one was fantastic. It is not about eating one way or another, instead the author does a great job of showing the reader how food has changed in recent history. He attributed the change with the advent of Doritos, because that was the point where artificial flavoring started to become more important than the actual food. Our bodies are now tricked into enjoying things that are not actual food with disastrous results. He also presented just how daunting it is to understand actual nutrition of real food, just how chemically complex plants are. We've scratched the surface of this understanding and what he said we've found is amazing, that certain chemicals that we find pleasurable are almost always found in nature along with some sort of essential nutrient.