Your food is fooling you : how your brain is hijacked by sugar, fat, and salt
Title
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Your food is fooling you : how your brain is hijacked by sugar, fat, and salt
Author
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Kessler, David A., 1951-
ISBN
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9781596438316
Edition
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1st ed.
Publication Information
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New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2012.
Physical Description
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183 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note
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Includes index.
Contents
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Sugar, fat, salt. What is overeating? -- America gained weight -- Eating and overeating -- Selling you sugar, fat, and salt -- Why diets are difficult -- Food that makes you want more -- Training your brain -- food carnival -- Sugar, fat, and salt rewire your brain -- How the food industry targets you. A visit to Chili's -- Cinnabon: food you can't resist! -- Food as entertainment -- Never satisfied -- We don't know what we want -- It's all American food now -- Fake food -- Perfect food -- Getting you hooked -- Understanding overeating. The signs of overeating -- Trained to eat -- overeating cycle -- How we get trapped -- Finding a way out -- Food rehab. Learning how to eat -- new look at food -- Taking control -- You make the rules -- Planned eating -- Just-right eating -- Good eaters -- Your new life with food -- Q & A with Dr. Kessler.
Reading Level
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830 L Lexile
Subject Term
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Nutrition -- Psychological aspects.
Obesity -- United States -- Prevention.
Health behavior -- United States.
Added Author
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Chevat, Richie.
Kessler, David A., 1951- End of overeating.
Local Subject
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Teen nonfiction collection.
Summary
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Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Stillwater Public Library | TEEN 613.2 KES | Teen Nonfiction |