The End of Overeating - Taking control of the Insatiable Amercian Appetite Review (johnd)

JohnD | Oct 5, 2009 |

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Pros

- Easy to read
- Interesting
- Provides a new viewpoint on food
- Exposes how food companies cause us to overeat

Cons

- A bit repetetive at times.
- the End of Overeating: Taking control of the Insatiable Amercian Appetite book doesn't really give good advice on how to handle Emotional overeating.

Full Review

The End of Overeating: Taking control of the Insatiable American Appetite is a book by Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA under Bill Clinton and George Bush.

The book is an attempt to discover why people today eat way more than people used to and why does it seem we're getting fatter and fatter all the time.

This is a 366 book in which Dr. Kessler exmaines various research studies, talks with food scientists, and regular people with eating problems and arrives at an interesting conclusion:

It is the food that we eat that is driving us to overeat because it actually manipulates our brain, like a drug does, and creates a desire for more and more food.

Dr. Kessler claims that it is the combination of fat-salt-sugar in various forms that creates a sort of desire loop in our brains: the more we eat the more we want, so we end up eating more and more food. In a sense, Dr. Kessler says it's all about the food we eat and not how strong we are mentally that determines whether we overeat or not.

Of course, this doesn't answer the question why some people don't overeat and some do.

The book is easy to read and is interesting. However, it isn't perfect

In Closing

Overall, this is a good and interesting book for its information. However, it won't really help those who need to deal with their emotional dependency on food.

Some people don't overeat even in today's society and some do. It's not just about the food we choose to eat.

To stop emotional eating you need to deal with the root cause of the problem, your emotional dependency on food.