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Is Life Now a Snack?

Is Life Now a Snack?

What's changed isn't our hard-wiring. What's changed is our industrial and communications technologies' powers to activate and exploit our hard-wiring.

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Jun 24, 2025
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Is daily life now a snack? This is the premise of my new book, Ultra-Processed Life. What makes this interesting is it's something we can all observe in our daily lives--how the processes that make ultra-processed snacks so addictive and unhealthy have spread into every nook and cranny of life.

I liken this normalization of addictive and unhealthy lifest…

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