It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

are hundreds of different micronutrients, but some you’ve probably heard of include vitamins (like vitamin ...

from a carrot, brown rice, or a Pop-Tart, break down into simple sugars in the body. Complex carbohydra ...

Proteins are made up of long chains of amino acids, which are the building blocks for all sorts of biolo ...

energy source, perfect for supporting lower intensity activity. The energy contained within each type of macronutr ...

impact your immune system and your risk for any number of diseases and conditions. Your good health star ...

foods, because of their psychological effect on you. Overconsumption (and the kinds of foods you ten ...

CHAPTER 4: YOUR BRAIN ON FOOD “This program has shown results that I didn’t think were possible. Prior to ...

eat now is how I honestly desire to feed myself.” —Aubrey H., Manassas, Virginia Surprised that we’re leading o ...

efforts have failed? Dieting doesn’t work. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Calorie-restrictive plans have ...

want to lose weight, get off your medication, or be healthier. Yet you continue to eat them. You struggle wit ...

don’t have any responsibility for your current health status (or waistline). But what you have to understand is ...

particular food (or type of food) that is difficult to resist.” Cravings aren’t merely about your ...

stuck in a cycle of relentless urges, short-term satisfaction, and long-term guilt, shame, anxiety, and weight ...

of conserving fluid). When we came across these flavors, neurotransmitters in our brain would help us rem ...

in our bodies and in our brains. Over the last fifty years, the makeup of our foods has dramatically changed. ...

food. These foods light up pleasure and reward centers in the brain for a different reason than nature intend ...

Do you see the problem with this? Modern technology has stripped the nutrition from these foods, replacing it ...

“Supernormal stimulus” is the science-y term for something so exaggerated that we prefer it to reality ...

(And if you take a good, hard look in the light of day—i.e., read your ingredients—you’ll see that ...

The problem is that these foods are supernormally stimulating in the absence of nutrition and satiety. They are ...