The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MY2QWYM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: Why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don't care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease - yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does o
Gold mine of information! I am a long-time fan of Stephan’s blog, Whole Health Source, so I was super excited about this book. And, if we’re being completely honest, I wondered how he was going to top his already thorough, engaging, and meticulously crafted blog posts. Well, let’s just say it did not disappoint!If Whole Health Source is a little treasure trove of ancestrally-motivated diet and lifestyle advice built on nuggets of rigorous science, then this book is the full gold mine. It also brings neuroscience front and center, whereas on the blog I feel like the . "Overeating 101 (and 201 and Overeating 101 (and 201 and 301) If you follow nutrition researchers online (not diet gurus, but actual researchers), you may already know of Stephan Guyenet.He's written about some of the most compelling nutrition topics over the past decade or so, and this book fleshes out one of the most interesting: why the non-conscious brain plays such a big part in overeating, and how we can address that. The "we" includes you, your family/friends, clinicians, and public health decision-makers.Here are some reasons why this book is especially good:1) It's written clearlySome well-meaning scientists w. 01)" according to Kamal Patel. If you follow nutrition researchers online (not diet gurus, but actual researchers), you may already know of Stephan Guyenet.He's written about some of the most compelling nutrition topics over the past decade or so, and this book fleshes out one of the most interesting: why the non-conscious brain plays such a big part in overeating, and how we can address that. The "we" includes you, your family/friends, clinicians, and public health decision-makers.Here are some reasons why this book is especially good:1) It's written clearlySome well-meaning scientists w. A valuable contribution "I'd do anything to be healthy, except eat right and exercise," said the comedian. Why do people gorge themselves into ill health and painful, life-shortening diseases, year after year? Is eating for nutrition really so unpleasant that more and more of us prefer a lifetime of diabetes, obesity, and constant pain?Guyenet combines neurological expertise with an accessible writing style to explain clearly why so many of us lack the ability to choose otherwise. In simple terms, our brains are finely tuned to an ancestral environment where food was hard to get an