Book · 2017 · Obesity
The hungry brain
Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
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And his book The Hungry brain is to me the most convincing model for why obesity is rising year after year by so many who try so hard to change their waistlines fail even after they sometimes first succeed.
Ezra Klein · The Ezra Klein Show · Feb 2023 Listen at 0:14 Why people recommend it
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Ezra Klein and his book The Hungry brain is to me the most convincing model for why obesity is rising year after year… 1
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“and his book The Hungry brain is to me the most convincing model for why obesity is rising year after year by so many who try so hard to change their waistlines fail even after they sometimes first succeed”
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Passing
“and so I want to hold on this for a minute because I think it's important both to your your book and a lot of what we're going to talk about here when you say a lot affects how people act”
Passing
“but I want to talk about something that's scored your book which is the similarities and in particular the sort of evolutionary environment in which our brain's response to different kinds of food emerged which was an environment much more food scarcity”
Passing
“so you can literally reverse people's type 2 diabetes just by restricting their calorie intake and causing them to lose fat”
Speaker The Ezra Klein Show Our Brains Weren’t Designed for This Kind of Food 2023-02-28 Listen at 59:10
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“so DNA thank you very much thanks Ezra”
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“and then i went on to become a science consultant science communicator and write a book called the hungry brain that is my attempt to explain for a non-specialist audience what uh what causes obesity”
Plugged
“the book is called the hungry bird the hungry brain and it's available everywhere amazon all that jazz”



