Marcelle Pick explains why cutting calories and exercising more don't stop food cravings for some people. Oprah noticed that common strategies fail because processed foods trigger persistent hunger. Pick argues the rise of processed foods directly links to rising obesity rates.
Oprah pointed out beautifully in her show that so many people have tried so many different things to stop that craving and to stop the hunger and to stop the noise of food, and nothing was really helping. So cutting back on calories, increasing exercise, didn't make any difference for these people because those issues continued. However, the one thing that I want to point out to all of you is that we actually see a relationship between the advent of processed foods and the obesity rates that went up so high. So the truth is that the kinds of foods that we're eating are absolutely contributing to the need to have more information out there about that.
