In his new book, "Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions"; Pulitzer Prize winning Author, Michael Moss, contends that all the salty, sugar-filled, fat-rich, processed foods we love so much are not just simply the objects of our desire.
In fact, he says, they are the objects of our addiction; specifically engineered by the food industry to hook us just as surely as cigarettes and drugs.
But is that really true, and if so; what can we do about it?
Jeanne Destro asked Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital Chief of Psychiatry, Dr. David Streem.
Dr. David Streem, Chief of Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital