The Hungry Brain: Mass Update

In Jan of this year, I handed inwards a consummate manuscript draft of my starting fourth dimension book, The Hungry Brain, to my editor at Flatiron Books.  This majority represents to a greater extent than than 2 full-time years of my life, in addition to I can't hold off for it to hitting shelves.  It's markedly unlike from whatsoever other majority inwards its category, in addition to believe it has the potential to substantially modify the populace conversation on eating deportment in addition to obesity.

In the procedure of writing The Hungry Brain, I read countless papers in addition to interviewed 36 leading researchers inwards the fields of neuroscience, obesity research, in addition to anthropology.  I had my encephalon scanned inwards an fMRI machine spell looking at junk food.  I commissioned in addition to compiled 47 illustrations, schematics, in addition to graphs, by in addition to large past times a skilled medical illustrator named Shizuka Aoki.  Yet the majority volition last accessible to anyone who loves science.

This majority is non nearly me or my footing views.  It's non a conspiracy storey nearly how everything we've been told is genuinely wrong, nor is it a critique of existing ideas nearly eating deportment in addition to obesity-- although I do right some misconceptions along the way.  It's nearly the incredible in addition to chop-chop evolving footing of inquiry that has then much to instruct us nearly ourselves, just rarely trickles downwards into the populace sphere inwards a useful form.

In interviews this year, I said I thought the majority would last out or then September 2016.  That was based on a stone oil gauge my agent gave me concluding year.  Sadly, it won't last out until starting fourth dimension quarter 2017-- the gears plough like shooting fish in a barrel inwards the publishing industry.  But the practiced tidings is that Flatiron Books is using this fourth dimension to do a nifty undertaking of copyediting, interior design, comprehend design, in addition to marketing, to brand sure this majority is equally practiced equally it tin be, in addition to gets into equally many hands equally possible.  I'll supply a improve engagement gauge when I induce got one.

In the meantime, bask this brusk description of the book:

From an obesity in addition to neuroscience researcher amongst a knack for storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge scientific discipline to respond the questions: why do nosotros overeat, in addition to what tin nosotros do nearly it?

No ane wants to overeat. And sure enough no ane wants to overeat for years, learn overweight, in addition to cease upwards amongst a high jeopardy of diabetes or essence disease--yet 2 thirds of Americans do exactly that.  Even though nosotros know better, nosotros frequently consume also much. Why does our deportment betray our ain intentions to last lean in addition to healthy? The problem, argues obesity in addition to neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is non necessarily a lack of willpower or an wrong agreement of what to eat. Rather, our appetites in addition to nutrient choices are led astray past times ancient, instinctive encephalon circuits that play past times the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t help nearly how you lot await inwards a bathing adapt adjacent summer.

To brand the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journeying through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never earlier been available to a full general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the encephalon undermines our weight goals in addition to transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating good in addition to staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human encephalon works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who nosotros are.