Table of Contents
Part 1 Sugar, Fat, Salt
Chapter 1 What is Overeating? 3
Chapter 2 America Gained Weight 9
Chapter 3 Eating and Overeating 16
Chapter 4 Selling you Sugar, Fat, and Salt 26
Chapter 5 Why Diets are Difficult 32
Chapter 6 Food that Makes you Want More 37
Chapter 7 Training Your Brain 42
Chapter 8 The Food Carnival 47
Chapter 9 Sugar, Fat, and Salt Rewire Your Brain 54
Part 2 How the Food Industry Targets you
Chapter 10 A Visit to Chili's 61
Chapter 11 Cinnabon: Food you Can't Resist! 66
Chapter 12 Food as Entertainment 72
Chapter 13 Never Satisfied 78
Chapter 14 We Don't Know What We Want 82
Chapter 15 It's all American Food Now 87
Chapter 16 Fake Food 91
Chapter 17 Perfect Food 95
Chapter 18 Getting You Hooked 100
Part 3 Understanding Overeating
Chapter 19 The Signs of Overeating 105
Chapter 20 Trained to Eat 111
Chapter 21 The Overeating Cycle 116
Chapter 22 How we Get Trapped 122
Chapter 23 Finding a Way Out 126
Part 4 Food Rehab
Chapter 24 Learning How to Eat 131
Chapter 25 A New Look at Food 136
Chapter 26 Taking Control 142
Chapter 27 You Make the Rules 149
Chapter 28 Planned Eating 152
Chapter 29 Just-Right Eating 157
Chapter 30 Good Eaters 160
Chapter 31 Your New Life with Food 166
Q & A with Dr. Kessler 169
Acknowledgments 175
Index 177
About the Author 183
