Book · 2017 · Obesity
The hungry brain
Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
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- Ezra Klein Discussed
Ezra Klein — 1 mention
Discussed
“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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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
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”
Passing
“so DNA thank you very much thanks Ezra”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“the book is called the hungry bird the hungry brain and it's available everywhere amazon all that jazz”