Why You Eat What You Eat
The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
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Rachel Herz PhD
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Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Rachel Herz uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that affect food consumption: bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats; our beliefs about food affect the number of calories we burn; TV alters how much we eat; and what we see and hear changes how food tastes. Herz reveals useful techniques for managing cravings, such as resisting repeated trips to the buffet table, and how aromas can be used to curb overeating. Why You Eat What You Eat mixes the social with the scientific to uncover how psychology, neurology, and physiology shape our relationship with food and how food alters the relationships we have with ourselves and with one another.
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- Narrated by: Bee Wilson
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion? Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating, from bubble tea to quinoa, from Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps.
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Slow, doesn't get to the point-20% info, 80% fluff
- By DrSarah on 11-13-19
By: Bee Wilson
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Pandora's Lunchbox
- How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
- By: Melanie Warner
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former New York Times reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that takes her to research labs, food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening - and sometimes disturbing - account of what we're really eating.
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Interesting.
- By Dr. Jeff McCombs, DC on 10-01-13
By: Melanie Warner
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Trim Healthy Mama Plan
- The Easy-Does-It Approach to Vibrant Health and a Slim Waistline
- By: Pearl Barrett, Serene Allison
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Becoming trim and healthy doesn't have to be difficult or painstaking anymore. After trying almost every fad diet out there, Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett, creators of the Trim Healthy Mama movement, took matters into their own hands. Through trial and error and much research, they created the Trim Healthy Mama Plan, the breakthrough lifestyle program to help people of all ages and stages get healthy, slim down, and keep off the weight once and for all.
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Omit needless words. Omit Needless words.
- By Rebecca on 05-25-17
By: Pearl Barrett, and others
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The Hormone Reset Diet
- Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days
- By: Sara Szal Gottfried
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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The Harvard-educated physician and New York Times best-selling author of The Hormone Cure shows you how to grow new receptors for your seven metabolic hormones, making you lose weight and feel great fast! When it comes to weight loss, most people don't think about hormones.
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Unrealistic
- By Tammy Sue on 04-14-15
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The Hunger Fix
- The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction
- By: Pamela Peeke
- Narrated by: Pamela Peeke
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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The Hunger Fix lays out a science-based three-stage plan that shows us how to break our addiction to False Fixes and replace them with healthier rewards. Fun fitness activities, customized meal plans, and delicious, satisfying recipes are designed to trigger the specific neurochemical cascade that stimulates your body’s reward system, reclaims your hijacked brain, and supports your lifelong recovery.
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Get to the point!
- By Cynthia Patton on 05-26-14
By: Pamela Peeke
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Food Freedom Forever
- Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food
- By: Melissa Hartwig
- Narrated by: Melissa Hartwig
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Food Freedom Forever shows you how to design your reset, making your short-term protocol maximally effective. You'll learn how to spot your specific triggers before they're pulled and strategies for dealing with temptation, strengthening your new healthy habits, and boosting your willpower. Melissa also shares advice for retaining your food freedom during holidays, vacations, periods of life stress, social pressure, and criticism from friends and family.
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Life Changing
- By Sally Rusk on 07-05-17
By: Melissa Hartwig
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Wheat Belly
- Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
- By: William David MD
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America’s obesity epidemic—it is wheat.
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Raw vegetables, eggs, meat and cheese
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-27-12
By: William David MD
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Proteinaholic
- How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
- By: Garth Davis MD
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Whether you are seeing a doctor, a nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise eating more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use protein for weight control while others believe it gives them more energy. Now, weight loss expert Dr. Garth Davis asks, "Is all this protein making us healthier?" The answer, he emphatically argues, is no.
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Want to know more about your health?
- By Korin Sutton on 01-27-17
By: Garth Davis MD
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Feeding You Lies
- How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health
- By: Vani Hari
- Narrated by: Vani Hari
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, a.k.a. The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies we've been fed about the food we eat - lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science we base our food choices on.
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Why taken off?!
- By Hannah Gray on 08-01-19
By: Vani Hari
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Thinspired
- How I Lost 90 Pounds: My Plan for Lasting Weight Loss and Self-acceptance
- By: Mara Schiavocampo
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Like so many people, Mara Schiavocampo had struggled with weight for most of her life. She tried every diet on the planet, suffered a debilitating eating disorder, joined a bizarre food cult, took dangerous pills, worked out for insane amounts of time - and still tipped the scales at nearly 230 pounds. But more than reaching a healthy weight, Mara wanted peace and freedom from the constant mental torment brought on by food. A healthy and effortless way of life - for the rest of her life.
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Entertaining and Realistic
- By Carolyn M. Kell on 08-07-15
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The Atkins Essentials
- A Two-Week Program to Jump-Start Your Low Carb Lifestyle
- By: Atkins Health, Medical Information Services
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Millions of people around the world have already discovered the Atkins Nutritional Approach and the remarkable benefits of controlling carbohydrates. Now it's even easier to join the revolution, lose weight, and get healthy the proven Atkins way!
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Good information but a little outdated
- By Melanie on 01-23-12
By: Atkins Health, and others
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- paige
- 01-03-20
some topics more interesting than others
I was fascinated by many aspects of this book and found myself hooked on many of the research studies. However, the beginning and the end were the most interesting. I didn't enjoy the preoccupation with overeating/obesity as opposed to the far more interesting: wine and music pairings and the influence of mood on sugar.
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- CP.Reader
- 02-18-18
Narrator speak too fast
What did you like best about Why You Eat What You Eat? What did you like least?
I really like this book and was interested in what the narrator was saying the problem is that multiple times I have a hard time to keep the rhythm of the narrator. She was speaking to fast for my taste. But overall is an interesting book that explain the relation of hour hapits and traditions with our food.
Would you be willing to try another one of Jo Anna Perrin’s performances?
Not sure. She speaks too fast
Did Why You Eat What You Eat inspire you to do anything?
It help me to understand more some of the things that I do
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- Dora D
- 06-07-18
Great balance between popular and scientific.
Ms Herz has achieved a pleasant balance between popular and scientific writing which I greatly appreciate. The amount of research that went into the book and the experiments cited is astounding.
Even though it is a non-fiction book, I often even had the feeling like I was being told a story because the chapters (and the anecdotes in them) were so logically ordered and just flowed into each other seamlessly. Not to mention that you, as a reader, are constantly being addressed and your attention is brought to the ways you can practically apply all the findings and advice from the book.
It's a great read for anyone in the least bit interested in nutritionism, healthy living or simply the way our biology manipulates our rationality - it's astounding how much of our everyday lives is governed by food. And since we can't do much about that, you might as well get to know your biology better and learn to control it (at least as much as is humanly possible).
Suggestion for audiobook readers/listener: I do advise upping the speed to at least x 1.25 (I kept it on x 1.4 speed) since the reading speed was a bit too slow for my taste.
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- disudds
- 11-19-21
Full of great food trivia
Listening to this book gave me the opportunity to annoy my family with trivia tidbits about food for about a month. Thinking about food, the science of food, and the weird and interesting experiments that have been done with taste and smell sensations was fascinating, though probably not life-changing.
Some of my key takeaways
-The pace and volume of music change the pace at which you eat
-Sweet can take away pain
-The smell receptors in the nose are mostly responsible for taste and regenerate every month
-Round shapes and red plates make food sweeter
-We need lots of stimuli--crunchiness, saltiness, sweetness, texture, etc.--to really enjoy our food
-I am definitely not a super taster
It's another one of those books I wish I had read, instead of listened to, because it is hard to remember all the details. Furthermore, I found Perrin to be somewhat of an annoying reader.
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- zweg
- 09-12-23
Interesting food facts, but bad narrator
This book largely read as a literature review of research relating to the consumption of food. Herz did a good job sorting through to find the most interesting facts explaining food consumption for the layman.
However, the narrator leaves much to be desired. Perrin’s narration comes across as haughty, so it creates a barrier for the listener in relating to the author and material.
If audible found a new narrator for this book, then it would be worth listening to again. With this narrator, definitely not.
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- coppercent7
- 02-13-18
Fascinating information
While I felt the reader was far too monotone in her delivery, the subject matter was fascinating and insightful. The author provided extensive research and covered a multitude of topics. I really enjoyed the book and gained a greater understanding between the connection of food and life. A great read!
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- scott
- 10-18-22
Sounds like a computer generated voice.
Generally good information presented in a coherent style. The reading sounded like a computer generated voice. Really strange.
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- Rachel
- 01-29-18
Scientific study, after study, after study...
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
More practical advice, and less studies about lab rats.
What was most disappointing about Rachel Herz PhD’s story?
It was very boring, and I felt that a lot of the studies were very random in her story.
What didn’t you like about Jo Anna Perrin’s performance?
She has a very dull and irritating voice.
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