The Modern Food Trap reveals how our food has changed, why modern ultra-processed foods can be so difficult to resist, and what decades of eating this way may be doing to our health.

Written in simple, easy-to-understand language, this book takes you behind the supermarket shelf and shows you what you’re actually eating — and why it matters.

Inside, you’ll discover:

✓ How our food changed from recognisable ingredients into highly engineered products

✓ Why you can be overfed but undernourished at the same time

✓ The shocking amount of sugar hidden in everyday foods and drinks

✓ How to read food labels and understand what’s actually inside the products you buy

✓ What happened to the fats and oils in the modern food supply

✓ How food scientists and flavour specialists engineer taste, texture, sweetness and crunch

✓ How dopamine, cravings and the brain’s reward system can influence how much you eat

✓ Why certain combinations of sugar, refined carbohydrates, fat and salt can make foods incredibly difficult to put down

✓ Eye-opening facts and research on obesity, diabetes, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease, cancer and modern metabolic health

✓ How the food environment can influence children’s eating habits and food preferences

✓ A practical 80/20 approach to eating that allows you to improve your diet without trying to be perfect

✓ Simple strategies for choosing better foods, reading labels, improving your home food environment and making whole foods the foundation of your diet

This isn’t a diet book. It’s an eye-opener.

By the end, you’ll understand how dramatically our food environment has changed, how those changes can influence what we eat and what you can do to take greater control of your own nutrition and your family’s.

Once you see the modern food trap, it’s very difficult to unsee it.