Diet rehab : 28 days to finally stop craving the foods that make you fat / Mike Dow, with Antonia Blyth.
"The co-host of TLC's hit series, Freaky Eaters, reveals the ultimate diet plan to kick the junk-food habit in just four weeks- without the pain of withdrawal. In March 2010, The Scripps Research Institute released a study showing how rats on a junk-food diet had just as difficult a time-if not more so-giving up excess fat and sugar as the rats who were struggling to recover from cocaine dependence. The results showed that certain foods actually alter the brain's chemistry, making our consumption of these foods less like an indulgence and more like an addiction. Our brains require two key neurotransmitters to maintain proper mood and function, serotonin and dopamine. We get a rush of the two when we eat junk food, but the converse is also true: If we stop eating them cold turkey, we go through serotonin and dopamine withdrawal. This is what causes so many dieters to ultimately fail. In order to successfully lose weight, explains Dr. Mike Dow, dieters should be sensitive both to their emotional and physical needs. Dr. Dow, a psychologist who specializes in addictive behavior and eating disorders, introduces a four-week program for breaking the hold that food has over the body, mind, and spirit by gradually decreasing the amount of "bad" foods while increasing activities and foods that boost serotonin and dopamine levels. Sensible and uniquely effective, Diet Rehab eliminates the withdrawal pains of most diet plans, and provides the structure for a sustainable, healthy, and happy lifestyle. "-- Provided by publisher.
"The Work will be a 4-week diet program, tailored to the reader's brain chemistry and habits, that treats the serotonin and dopamine tolerance and withdrawal that keeps people physically and psychologically addicted to sugar, carbs, and fat"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1583334424
- ISBN: 9781583334423
- Physical Description: 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Avery, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-314) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I Understanding Food Addiction -- 1 Willpower Is Not the Problem 13 -- 2 How Food Addiction Makes You Fat 28 -- 3 Secret of Gradual Detox 44 -- Part II Your Brain on Food -- 4 Feeling Anxious: Hungry for Serotonin 71 -- 5 Feeling Blue: Ravenous for Dopamine 101 -- 6 Feeling Powerless: Starving for Everything 127 -- Part III Free Yourself from Food Addiction -- 7 Obsessive Eating: Seeking Security 141 -- 8 Emotional Eating: The Search for Joy 154 -- 9 Binge Eating: Regaining Control 166 -- Part IV Rehab Your Diet -- 10 Change Your Tastes, Change Your Body 181 -- 11 Salt Junkies: Hooked on the Gateway Drug 193 -- 12 Starved for Serotonin: Jonesing for Sugar and Carbs 201 -- 13 Dopamine-Deprived: Longing for Fat and Caffeine 216 -- 14 Diet Rehab: The Program 231. |
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Subject: | Nutrition. Reducing diets. Self-care, Health. |
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