Do you have any idea how complex the neuroscience of your food habits are? Cinnabon, Chili's, General Mills, et al know way more about your brain than you do. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, pediatrician and Dean of Yale and UC San Francisco Medical Schools, tells the story in The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.
Neuroscientists know how the salt/sugar/fat triple whammy messes with the brain circuitry, taking offline the I have had enough now sensors and replacing them with More, please. Reward centers, neurotransmitters, HPA axis, limbic system, operant conditioning -- they are messing with you. Neither your meds nor an aluminum foil hat will protect you.
Neuroscientists know how the salt/sugar/fat triple whammy messes with the brain circuitry, taking offline the I have had enough now sensors and replacing them with More, please. Reward centers, neurotransmitters, HPA axis, limbic system, operant conditioning -- they are messing with you. Neither your meds nor an aluminum foil hat will protect you.