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pangaia

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13. Processed food makers know exactly how much salt, sugar and fat it takes

Reply to nobodyspecial (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 09:25 AM

Jul 2014

to get you addicted to their products. They have it down to a science.
It is such overkill that if you take away those high percentages, we think the food is bland. It's not.
I remember in the early 1980's going on the Pritikin diet and suddenly, with the almost total absence of salt, what vegegables actually tasted like.. and I saw the light.

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Processed food makers know exactly how much salt, sugar and fat it takes pangaia Jul 2014 #13