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Hedonic Eating explores the science and latest research to understand the root cause of overconsumption and the role of pleasure-based eating. With a comprehensive overview of the factors that may be driving these behaviors, this book discusses how the brain is impacted in this ongoing cycle, why so many individuals struggle to regulate their intake of highly-palatable, ultra processed foods, and the physiological processes that contribute to overconsumption.
List of contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Genetic Obesity Risk Grade Evaluation (GORGE): Precision Recovery from Obesity Model (PROM) by restoring dopamine hedonostasis
- Chapter 3 The Brain's Got a Taste for Good Food
- Chapter 4 Understanding Food Cravings: individual differences, triggers, and measurement
- Chapter 5 Overeating and Binge Eating
- Chapter 6 Effects of Sugars and Non-nutritive Sweeteners on Neural and Endocrine Regulation of Eating Behavior
- Chapter 7 Brain Mechanisms of Food 'Liking' and 'Wanting'
- Chapter 8 The Modern Food Environment: influences on what, how much, where, and why we eat
- Chapter 9 Can Intuitive Eating be Helpful to Individuals with Ultra-Processed Food Addiction?
- Chapter 10 Food Addiction
About the author
Dr. Nicole Avena is a research neuroscientist, author and expert in the fields of nutrition, diet and addiction. She received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Psychology from Princeton University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology at The Rockefeller University in New York City. Currently, Dr. Nicole Avena is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and a Visiting Professor of Health Psychology at Princeton University. She has done groundbreaking work developing models to characterize food addition and the dangers of excess sugar intake.
