How much do you really know about how the human body works and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most people have read about at least one fad diet, they’re left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis in the United States.
Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows readers how their bodies react to food and the environment and how their brains affect what and how much they eat. It reveals why some diets work for some people but not for others, based on genetics, previous weight history, brain chemistry, environmental cues, and social pressures. It explores how dozens of hormones affect hunger and satiety and interact with the brain and the gut to regulate feeding behavior. And it explains the addictive nature of foods that interact with the same dopamine and opioid receptors in the brain as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and nicotine.
Whether you’re looking to lose weight, put on muscle mass, or simply understand how your metabolism or gut microbiome impact your food cravings, Simon Quellen Field has the scientific answers for you.
An excellent handbook for understanding your bodyâs response to food. My wife cannot stop telling people how this book changed her life.This book is. It helped her to understand just how immense is the impact of food choices on how one feels fat to day. With no effort at all to restrict calories, but simply by making better food choices, she has lost over pounds in seven months, has greatly reduced the amount of joint inflammation she used to feel, sleeps better, has more energy, and claims itâs been basically effortless. She scoffs at the advice my…
Excellent book explaining the bio chemistry of food and body. It explains how each food interacts with the body allowing us to make better food choices. Lots of references to medical publications to back up the information. It is not easy reading, but even if you read the first chapter on sugars and its effects, you would have recovered your purchase price. Gift it to a high schooler to motivate them to study medicine, or to those wanting to lead a healthier lifestyle. [I bought hard copy…