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How Cereal, Sugar, and Big Business Rewired Our Diets

Season 2 Episode 1 | 6m 24s

Shane joins Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss joins to uncover how cereal sparked the rise of processed foods — and the billion-dollar marketing machine behind it. From sugar-loaded breakfasts to Big Tobacco’s food empire, this segment reveals how modern diets were engineered to override our willpower.

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