Break Food Seduction.

Our compulsion to eat some foods can certainly be the basis of our inability to control our weight, cholesterol, high blood pressure, acid reflux, and more.

Book Review by Jan Wilson

Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings---And 7 Steps to End Them Naturally

by Neal Barnard, MD, and Joanne Stepaniak, M.S.Ed

If you seek to understand your food compulsions and want to replace them with healthy nutrition, this is an excellent book for your library. Learn to resist food temptations and control your weight, cholesterol, acid reflux, high blood pressure, and more.

All recreational drugs (from alcohol and nicotine to heroin and cocaine) work on the brain's pleasure center by eliciting a dopamine response.

Whenever you have a very pleasant experience (milk chocolate or your first kiss), the brain releases dopamine, a pleasure-producing chemical. This, in turn, helps to build a pleasure center in your brain; you remember that kissing and chocolate are good and want (in some instances, crave) that pleasure again. You are hooked!

Some objects the brain remembers as pleasant are actually good for you, some are not good for you, and some are downright unhealthy. Your brain's pleasure center does not know the difference.

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Our compulsion to eat some foods is usually the basis of our inability to control our weight, cholesterol, high blood pressure, acid reflux, and more.

Dr. Barnard explains food compulsions, presents seven steps to break those compulsions, and gives you a good foundation in healthy nutrition..

To get you "hooked" on a healthy diet, he details a three-week meal plan complete with over 100 recipes from Joanne Stepaniak.

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Neal Barnard, MD, is the president and founder of the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine, author of numerous books about nutrition and health, and an accomplished national speaker. Joanne Stepaniak, M.S.Ed, author and creator of the book's recipes, is an expert on tasty and healthy cuisine.

If you seek to understand your food compulsions and want to replace them with healthy nutrition, this is an excellent book for your library.

Buy this book