Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Reader Advice Day: Addicted to the Restaurant High

Do you get a thrill from eating out?

I do.

Ever wonder why?

I'm pretty sure I know.

It's that irresistible combination of fat, salt and sugar. And boy, do restaurants know how to tickle our taste buds with more of those three ingredients than most of us would ever dare to put into our food at home.

Think about it, restaurants want to stay in business. To do that they need to make you keep coming back for more, which means they are absolutely going to load up on the high calorie stuff that tastes so good (have you read The Pleasure Trap by Doug Lisle? He explains it all so simply.). It all adds up to tons of calories. Of course, not all restaurants do it, but the majority do.


People can literally become addicted to restaurant food. I'd venture to say that millions upon millions of Americans are. That's what restaurants bank on!

A few days ago, I received this e-mail from a reader:

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