The first, provocatively, is about the addictive power of food. This way of viewing food underpins the rest of the book. Part 2 explains the complex biology of weight gain and loss.

At a Senate hearing last December, former FDA commissioner Dr. Robert Califf made a blunt statement: “These foods are ...

Dr. David Kessler, who led the FDA and later ran Operation Warp Speed, said obesity rates have jumped from 13% in the 1960s to 42% today because of what he calls “ultraformulated foods” that ...

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Dr. Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is the author of the forthcoming book “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight ...