What did you read this year?
Lexi’s
average rating for
2025
3.7
3.7
This feels like a very important book. For me it’s been very eye-opening concerning the “food” industry, and has encouraged me to change the way I eat and shop. As the author admits, the study of UPF and its effects on our bodies is still a relatively new science and a lot of it is still theory. But there is data (I thought I had 20% of the book to go but that 20% in the back of the book was largely made of citations), and there are important que
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I liked it, I didn’t love it, but that was more because of a preference in writing style/voice and not because of a dislike of the content. I read this after watching the video online of Sapolsky’s debate with Dennett, and another video of Sapolsky explaining why he doesn’t believe in free will. Loved the videos. I think that for me the many footnotes were distracting and made reading this challenging (jumping back and forth — not that I HAD to,
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