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

slow, these signals may take several hours to be transmitted, which means they can’t do a very good ...

to support our health. In this case, satiation and satiety would be one and the same. Let’s use the example of a ...

that the dense nutrition in that prime rib is adequate for your energy and caloric needs. This sends a ...

the tenth Oreo just as much as the first. And we never stop wanting more because even though we’ve eat ...

nature. This processing removes any nutrition once found in the food but still leaves all the calor ...

perceptions, and our waistlines. Over time, they literally rewire our brains. PLEASURE, REWARD, EMOTION, AND ...

feeding. It gives you that rush of anticipation before you’ve even taken your first bite. (You’re daydr ...

reinforcement, those dopamine pathways begin to light up at the mere suggestion of the food, like when ...

good (for a while). And so the vicious cycle serves only to reinforce itself until you have developed a h ...

your eating habits. Did you catch that? Stress makes it even harder for us to resist our cravings. When you a ...

stress, we eat the cookies, and we really do feel better. This creates two problems, however. The first is t ...

yourself reaching for the cookies when you’re feeling tired, cranky, or just kind of down. (Remember, cravi ...

It’s a vicious cycle—and you probably didn’t even realize you were stuck in it. Until now. Of course, we ca ...

manipulated you into cravings and overconsumption. And we bet if we said, “Let’s kick all of these sneaky, tr ...

reward, emotion, and pleasure pathways in our brains to create an artificial demand for more. And when we te ...

able to stop eating because you’re satisfied, not just because you’re “full.” Third, you will never again b ...

supernormally stimulating, carbohydrate- dense, nutrient-poor foods with all the pleasure and reward signals to ...

CHAPTER 5: HEALTHY HORMONES, HEALTHY YOU “Just finished my Whole30, and my (diagnosed type 2 diabetic) blood ...

the food you eat should produce a healthy hormonal response in the body. This is probably the most scien ...

regulatory mechanisms designed to keep systems operating within safe, healthy parameters and maintain homeostasis ...