Secrets from the Eating Lab
The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again
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Traci Mann PhD
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From her office in the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work, they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food - the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive.
In Secrets from the Eating Lab, Mann challenges assumptions - including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry - about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers cutting-edge science and exciting new insights into the American obesity epidemic and our relationship with eating and food.
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At 44, acclaimed cardiologist Dr. John Day was overweight and suffered from insomnia, degenerative joint disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. On six medications and suffering constant aches, he needed to make a change. While lecturing in China, he'd heard about a remote mountainous region known as Longevity Village, a wellness Shangri-La free of disease where living past 100 was not uncommon.
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Life changing
- By Dr Mum on 09-05-17
By: Dr. John Day, and others
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The Sugar Brain Fix
- The 28-Day Plan to Quit Craving the Foods That Are Shrinking Your Brain and Expanding Your Waistline
- By: Dr. Mike Dow
- Narrated by: Dr. Mike Dow
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Sugar Brain Fix, Dr. Dow takes a closer look at how sugar effects brain chemistry and the ways we can fix it. The audio features cutting-edge research and Dr. Dow's modified Mediterranean diet - the best diet for brain health and wellness. The Sugar Brain Fix will also incorporate research about hypnosis, and other activities to naturally boost brain health. At its core, The Sugar Brain Fix is a cognitive behavioral guide for boosting serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain with a new-and-improved diet and natural mind-set shifts, while improving overall health.
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My Excited Sugar Brain Fix
- By Shamae on 02-17-20
By: Dr. Mike Dow
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The Expectation Effect
- How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
- By: David Robson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes lstenersi on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: Believing is seeing.
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Every leader and teacher must read!
- By Myron Golden on 09-18-22
By: David Robson
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The Diet Trap Solution
- Train Your Brain to Lose Weight and Keep It off for Good
- By: Judith S. Beck, Deborah Beck Busis
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Beck Diet Solution teams up with her daughter and colleague at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior to teach listeners how to think their way thin, offering practical, proven tools for escaping common diet traps for good.
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Ruined by narration.
- By wendy on 10-23-18
By: Judith S. Beck, and others
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Fat Girl Friday
- Weight Loss Secrets for Women
- By: Craig Beck
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Are you sick of being on a diet? Do you always seem to be struggling to stop gaining weight? Fat Girl Friday is the most unique dieting book ever written – it will change the way you eat for the rest of your life! Craig Beck is one of the fittest, healthiest and most toned people you will ever meet. So why is he known around the world as ‘Fat Guy Friday’? In truth that’s exactly what he used to be.. a big fat guy! Until one day he said enough is enough and broke the cycle of yo-yo dieting that had plagued his life.
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Yes Very good Funny and informative
- By Elaine Beaudry on 09-21-12
By: Craig Beck
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- Kyler
- 04-27-17
some boring areas, but great overall
Some boring areas, but great overall. Thats all I have to say, but this requires more characters.
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- Kaci Byrd Cheeseman
- 04-27-21
Fascinating and practical!
Excellent book. Eye opening truth about the diet industry and he health bias that exists in the setting of obesity. Great psychology and physiology insights which can be applied to life practically.
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- Roland
- 11-11-18
This book was fascinating
I’m not sure that I will have any long-term life changing eating habits after reading this book, but it sure was interesting! Human nature is a fascinating study and the perspective on the brain and food was well worth the listen.
#weightloss #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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- Musical Engineer
- 01-30-18
Good solid research
Contains the facts we have to face. No false promises and no potions to sell.
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- WisconsinDawn
- 08-29-19
Read this before you or a loved one diets!
There is so much about weight loss, dieting, obesity that we think we know. However, Traci Mann and her students have looked at all of the studies that claim to tell us what we think we know -- and have found something different. This book is a must read if you think you or someone you know needs to go on a diet and lose weight. Not only does Traci blast away some of the myths that pervade our culture, but she also gives very good practical tips to help reign in undesired eating habits. She also points out all the ways that the "being overweight is unhealthy for you" message.
And she is human, very, very human. She is not a person who has figured everything out and is living the perfect life. She is someone like me, who struggles sometimes. She has data. She has life experience. And she makes it all very interesting to listen to.
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- Crystal Edison
- 04-17-17
Great research and stories
I learned a lot about strategies that work for a healthy lifestyle that don't involving dieting or relying on will power. That's just not possible long term. Great book with helpful stories and research showing what works and what doesn't.
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- Andrea Tonsfeldt
- 07-10-18
Healthy way to view food
I really enjoyed this book. I have been dieting much of my life and through her research shared ways for me to get the results I truly need vs. just want because society tells me I should be a certain way. I have already started using her tips and am happier and feel better about my relationship with food.
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- Victoria
- 07-11-16
Good read
Loved the use of real scientific evidence throughout the book. No guru mumbo jumbo here.
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- Terra's Mom
- 09-11-20
Disordered Eating Alert!!!
This book is chock full of high quality science and important information about the reality of weight set point, naturally variability in body size, exploding the myth that everyone is naturally a thin person unless they are weak-willed, and showing the dangers and discrimination of weight stigma. I recommend reading/listening to this book with an important caveat. The author gives seriously mixed messages that don’t make sense based on the scientific conclusions she has reached. This contradiction is confusing at best, and could trigger disordered eating for those who are predisposed. If possible, read the chapters on scientific conclusions and skip the chapters about how to control your weight.
The scientific conclusions presented in this book indicate that we all are genetically predisposed to a particular set weight range, and that efforts to achieve a weight outside this range are fiercely counteracted by the body in numerous ways. The author presents fact upon fact about the false claims that weight is the cause of many health concerns. She carefully lays out the dangers of weight stigma and discrimination. All of these conclusions support eating intuitively, gaining freedom from restriction, working to counteract diet mentality, learning to accept ourselves at our natural set point, and working systemically to combat weight stigma and weight discrimination.
Unfortunately, this book contradicts itself and supports restrictive, disordered eating and encourages readers to go to great lengths to maintain their lowest possible weight through going to ridiculous lengths, which would only serve to intensify preoccupation and prevent someone from living a full and meaningful life. It truly is irresponsible to make it abundantly clear that we cannot control our genetically predisposed weight, and then spend chapters about how to control weight!!! It is unethical to write eloquently about the damaging impact of weight stigma, the inaccuracies of current attribution of ill health to weight, and then contribute to the fallacies the author has carefully discredited by repeatedly suggesting readers should go to great lengths to maintain their lowest possible weight!
Sigh...I’m sure the author is, herself, brainwashed by diet mentality, which would explain why she hides in her office and takes different routes to work to avoid food cues so she can maintain her lowest livable weight. Perhaps, in order to get such a controversial book published, there has to be a section on weight control. Or she didn’t want to have to leave out her years of research on weight control.
The bottom line - this book presents gold standard research that is much needed and rarely presented. I’m glad I read the book. I dream of another edition that would use this research to support true freedom from diet mentality, restriction, weight stigma and discrimination.
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- Vibedriver1
- 07-27-20
Very enlightening!
I loved the research and examples in this book! It was an easy read, too!
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