num_pages: 368
description:  The author of New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women presents a groundbreaking neuroscience-based program to rewire your food-addicted brain and get the body you deserve The bodys built-in reward system driven by the chemical dopamine is a fascinating adaptation: It tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. Creative energy falling in love entrepreneurship and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven by this system . . . just as is unfortunately the urge to overeat. In The Fix Dr. Pamela Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioral hooks have gotten us ensnared; indeed she shows that dopamine rushes in the body work exactly the same way with food as with cocaine. Luckily we are all capable of rewiring and the very same dopamine-driven system can be used to reward us for healthful exciting and fulfilling activities. The Fix makes this possible by laying out a lifelong 3-stage plan that starts with a 3- to 4-week jump start to break so-called heinous hooks and replace them with healthier actions. Fitness guides meal plans and recipes are constructed to bolster the growth of new neurons and stimulate the bodys reward system. Gradually healthy hooks like playing games meditating having sex going for a run laughing and learning a new language will replace the junk food couch time and other bad habits that leave us unhappy and overweight.
language: English
title: The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction
publisher: Rodale Books