#mark schatzker

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Pre Workout Ramble.

I really didn’t feel like running this morning but it helped to just put my clothes on and my earbuds to prepare. Now I’m all ready so I have no excuse not to go. I also texted my husband to tell him my route and estimated time of departure and return.

I finished The Dorito Effect during my last jog so this time I’ll be listening to An End to Cravings by the same author (Mark Schatzker). He’s not a doctor but his books were recommended by a reputable scientist, Dr. Chris van Tulleken, who wrote Ultra-Processed People. That’s why I decided to get Shatzker’s publications on Audible. The Dorito Effect was really interesting, so I am hoping this next book will also be good.

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I finished reading the Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker!! Here is my review.

Its amazing ohmg I want everyone to read it.

Its so full of science and like I'm foaming at the mouth because it's talking about how flavor has been lost in food and I'm like YEAH IT HAS, MY CHICKEN ALWAYS TASTES SUBPAR. And the book talks about chickens and their flavor a lot. Also talks about goats and nutrition and tomatoes and yeah it's a great book. Totally worth it. Also the author is so cute and witty. He made me find bacon sexy. I don't eat bacon. For him to do that, it takes talent. Mmm bacon.

I had a hard time reading it because I can't focus on anything for more than 20 minutes. And every time I'd read the book, I'd get hungry because it talks about food. One of my professors recommended this book to my class and I ordered it and my eyes were open about how the food industry and markets and sellers really don't care about the way food tastes. They only care about how much they can produce and sell. Flavor isn't important to them. It took me around a year to finish this book because I read it in little bitty chunks of 1-3 pages a day lol. I took a break from reading because I couldn't focus for a time. And then I picked it up again this February I think, and I finally finished! These are a Me problem, it has nothing to do with the quality and content of the book itself. I give it a 10/10 and if that sounds generous, I'm not giving it that score because I give every book a good score. I give it a 10 because it was just so good and the author is fantastic. I look forward to his next book this November. Anyway go read this book. It'll open your eyes to the world of flavor and lack of flavor in our food. It also does talk about Doritos.

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The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker (F, 20s, sunglasses, sitting on wall outside the Big Pink)

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[Free Audiobooks] 2 free titles from AudioSYNC Summer of Reading [Young Adult, Drama Novel, Non-Fiction, Health & Nutrition, Food Science]

AudioFile's SYNC Summer of Listening 2017 promotion for young adults continues, which offers 2 free audiobooks per week—1 classic or non-fiction, 1 modern—as free MP3 downloads, usually available worldwide (some titles are subject to geo-restrictions, and you can see the planned release schedule here).

This week's two selected titles, which have a theme of food and health, available until 7am Eastern Time on July 20th, are as follows:

Sugar: A Novel by Deirdre Riordan Hall, her contemporary teen life drama novel starring a girl with a difficult relationship with food and nutrition, who begins to make friends with people who care more about her personality and less about her weight, even as she comes to terms with her own struggles battling a family tendency towards obesity; from Brilliance Audio, read by Tara Sands

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor by Mark Schatzker, an award-winning Canadian journalist,, is his non-fiction food technology exposé, looking into the decades-old roots of what he perceives to be a contributing factor in the modern tendency towards poor health and increasing incidences of heart attack, diabetes, and obesity—leeching the flavour out of food and blaming carbs and fat while ignoring their benefits in moderation, instead artificially creating substitute “healthy” food which is nutritionally empty; from Dreamscape Media, read by Chris Patton

Offered as DRM-free MP3s through 7am Eastern Time on July 20th, available in selected countries worldwide (requires installing Overdrive Media console software on your PC, Mac, Android, or iDevice, and you need to finish downloading before the time limit).

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I've never understood why we have no hesitation to throw extra cash for clothes, cars, concerts, etc. But when it comes to what we ingest, we're suddenly so cheap.

Omnivores, herbivores, carnivores, vegans, pescetarians, gluten-free-ians, etc: have a listen.

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That Empty Feeling >

Junk food has no taste—which is why we can't stop eating it

What happens when the connection between what food tastes like and the nutrients it contains is severed? Sharing key findings from Dr. Yoni Freedhoff’s The Diet Fix (2014) and Toronto food writer Mark Schatzker’s The Dorito Effect (2015), Sasha Chapman delves into how the doctoring of flavour has contributed to an epidemic of dysfunctional eating habits.

Article by Sasha Champman | Illustration by Joren Cull

From the June 2015 issue of The Walrus.

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Doritos Are Like Your Gramma's Tomato. Sort of.

Doritos Are Like Your Gramma’s Tomato. Sort of.

I’ve just read an essay from the Wall Street Journal by an author, Mark Schatzker, whose new book is titled, “The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor.”

His publishing company should have used my encaustic Dorito Cheese Dip as the book cover, just sayin’.  (I knew I’d find a reason for doing this particular piece of art!)

Now, leave aside the merits of the photo, any…

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Mark Schatzker's "tough love" message on how best to honour the old girl. From The Globe and Mail.