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Your food is fooling you : how your brain is hijacked by sugar, fat, and salt / David A. Kessler ; adapted by Richie Chevat from The end of overeating.

by Kessler, David A., 1951-

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Roaring Brook Press, c2012.

Nutrition -- Psychological aspects.

Obesity -- United States -- Prevention.

Health behavior -- United States.

9781596438316 (paperback)

1596438312 (paperback)

183 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Sugar, fat, salt. What is overeating? -- America gained weight -- Eating and overeating -- Selling you sugar, fat, and salt -- Why diets are difficult -- Food that makes you want more -- Training your brain -- The food carnival -- Sugar, fat, and salt rewire your brain -- How the food industry targets you. A visit to Chili's -- Cinnabon: food you can't resist! -- Food as entertainment -- Never satisfied -- We don't know what we want -- It's all American food now -- Fake food -- Perfect food -- Getting you hooked -- Understanding overeating. The signs of overeating -- Trained to eat -- The overeating cycle -- How we get trapped -- Finding a way out -- Food rehab. Learning how to eat -- A new look at food -- Taking control -- You make the rules -- Planned eating -- Just-right eating -- Good eaters -- Your new life with food -- Q & A with Dr. Kessler.

A call to young people to exchange an unhealthy diet for a healthy one. Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.

Chevat, Richie.

Kessler, David A., 1951- End of overeating.

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