The End of Overeating : Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (CD-Audio)

from wineisme

Kessler investigates why the scales tip so much more in North America, than in other parts of the world. He criticizes a food industry that both intentionally, and unintentionally, alters the way people approach and react to food. Conditioned overeating is coined to explain this phenomenon. Domin...

from DetailMuse

An expose on the food industry: how sugar, fat, salt, flavor and texture are deliberately and repeatedly layered, one upon another, to create hyper-palatable foods that stimulate appetite rather than satisfy it. The resulting "conditioned hyper-eating" is compared to alcoholism, and former FDA Co...

from HopingforChange

This book was alright. Kessler definitely offers some new and intriguing theories about why so many of us find ourselves able to resist carrots but not carrot cake--or, why we eat what he calls "highly palatable foods" like cake when we aren't actually hungry and wouldn't eat healthful food. The ...

from YaacovLozowick

Kessler is a physician, lawyer, and top FDA bureaucrat who in spite of being as well informed as anyone, didn't manage not to be fat. So eventually he went looking for the science behind this, which he presents in this book. It's almost 300 pages long, and he could have written it in 30 - but aga...

from kitkatkt247

This book was alright. I had hoped that I had picked up a relaxing read- there is a lot of science in this book. Which is interesting, but not what I was looking for. " The End of Overeating" as a title would suggest that this book is more about the concept of stopping yourself from overeating. I...