Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Dr Andrew Jenkinson (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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For more than 20 years, Dr Andrew Jenkinson has helped thousands of people to solve their weight problems. Looking at how we eat today, in this audiobook he explores why modern nutrition has failed us. Why We Eat (Too Much) draws on the latest scientific research on appetite, anthropological insights from food habits around the world and personal stories of healthy and lasting weight loss.

Learn:

How to avoid the negative effects of the food and pharma industries.
How diets actually work and how each food type nourishes you.
Why your hormones can cause weight gain and diabetes.
How to lose weight for good, without counting calories.
The real impact of geography and major life events on your body.

This audiobook is your one-stop solution to eating well and feeling more energised with no complications to your lifestyle. Jenkinson offers an innovative model for why we all should - and can - enjoy the benefits of dieting without enduring its downsides.

With a new chapter about the link between obesity and COVID-19, this incredible book will help you understand your body better than ever before.

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10 hours and 41 minutes
Author

Dr Andrew Jenkinson
Narrator

John Sackville
Audible release date

2 Jan. 2020
Language

English
Publisher

Penguin Audio
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B08244C76V
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	10 hours and 41 minutes
Author	Dr Andrew Jenkinson
Narrator	John Sackville
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Audible.co.uk Release Date	02 January 2020
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08244C76V
Best Sellers Rank	88 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 2 in Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating 2 in Family & Lifestyle Immunology 5 in Nutrition (Books)

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Briantist

This book will change your life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020

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The set-point theory, which this book uses to explain why almost everyone in the western world is overweight or obese is highly enlightening: it clearly explains why diets will crash and then yo-yo. It explains why peoples metabolic rates go up when they are fat. It explains why people (including me) hit weight-loss plateau.

This book is shocking in many places, but shows scientific evidence for each and every point made. If we governed by kind people, this book would be taking down "big sugar" and "big advertising" and making all of us leaner and fitter. Until we are lead by the wise man and women of the world, this book will help you, your family or your patients really remove the disease of obesity from your life.

The nice thing about this book is that curing obesity doesn't cost anything: no memberships, no contracts, no "super" foods. The cure is about making choices with what you have.

I'm sure in the future this book will be looked back on as the start of the end of obesity crisis.

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William Jordan

interesting theory about 'weight set point' and how to change it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2020

The author is a bariatric surgeon who is reflecting on his experience with patients over many years; and also on how bariatric surgery works when it works well; and on wider issues connected with weight, encompassing genetics, epigenetic, and the Western diet.

The theory the author comes up with is that much of our eating behaviour is driven by the unconscious rather than the conscious mind (so it's hard to control by acts of will and maybe impossible), and it's partly genetics (body weight is about 75% heritable), partly epigenetic (note adaptations to the Dutch famine of 1944) and partly about the Western diet, which sends food signals to the unconscious part of the brain that are distinctly unhelpful - a surfeit of omega 6 in oil rather than omega 3 sends the sign that 'winter is coming so stock up on energy/fat' at all times of year, and a surfeit of sugar and carbohydrates more generally interferes with the signals leptin should be sending to the brain that 'the tank is full of energy'. We can artificially make matters worse by dieting - sending the signal to the unconscious brain that 'food is a bit short round here and unpredictable - better stock up again and more fully when you next reach a filling station'.

An interesting sidelight is that alcohol can be converted into heat energy by the body for those who drink a lot; and the suggestion more generally that when we are eating too much we tend to run on a high 'fight or flight' model with higher levels of inflammation, and when we are dieting we are sluggish as our brains aren't getting enough glucose. Either way, though, we are compensating so far as we can for our diet with a view to reaching our 'set point', ie the point we unconsciously think works best in the environment we find ourselves in for food...

This is all interesting and it makes for a compelling story - a book this short of course articulates such a theory, rather than demonstrating that it's true. There's also just a limited 'nod' to other theories about how our weight is controlled - notably the author declines to go into the view that the microbiome can have a lot to do with our weight.

As to what we should do, if the theory holds, the answer is 'return to a simpler way of life, cooking your own foods - in traditional oils, de- stressing and sleeping well, and watch out for carbohydrates that would give you insulin spikes and processed food which is likely to be rich in omega 6 rather than omega 3 oils'.

I learned a lot from reading this book; and would recommend it to others.

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ColinH

What you'd expect from a surgeon with popular paperback books on his desk rather than academic texts

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2020

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I was taken in by the similarity in book cover to "Why We Sleep" which is also published by Penguin. While that book was written by an actual sleep researcher with many publications (and is not without its controversy and criticisms by experts) this book is not written by a diet-health researcher or academic and AFAIK has no publications in the field. If you look at the author's desk on the book's website, or the "Bibliography" web page, you will see a modest collection of popular paperback books.

The author is a surgeon. He's good with a scalpel and a needle and thread. He's very successful in treating obesity by essentially removing a chunk of people's digestive tract. Patients no longer feel so hungry and literally have to remind themselves to eat and take supplements. He has interviewed many patients for whom dieting has failed and I don't doubt their stories. But what he hasn't done, is persuade anyone to adopt a new diet approach and study them for a period and demonstrate their lower weight or improved health. Instead, it appears he's read some popular paperbacks about diet and cherry-picked a collection of ideas from this about why we eat too much.

The result is a messy mix of the "science" he doesn't like being claimed to be bad or even fraudulent and the "science" he does like claimed to have settled the question so robustly that future generations will look back on us and wonder in astonishment as to why we remained so misguided for so long. The author has, he claims, found the Truth.

After much of the book explains the "science" behind "why we eat too much", he then proposes how to make adjustments to your life in order to lower your weight "set point" and slowly lose weight long-term. The problem is that these adjustments seem to have been invented while sitting in his chair in his study rather than based on working with overweight people and successfully seeing them lose weight. It becomes just a random and contradictory mix of suggestions. When I read the "You might as well throw out your bread bin, you aren't going to need it" and the rejection of any wheat-based food or any vegetable oils, I realise this "diet" like many, is going to work simply by removing food groups and restricting a lot of what you can eat. If you can't eat any bread, cakes, biscuits, cereals, nuts, crisps, pasta, or use vegetable oil, your meal options shrink. At one point, in his desire to eat only meat from animals that have eaten grass (not cereal), he advises avoiding everything but lamb. This section appears to have forgotten the pig you had for breakfast.

I really was expecting a "science of appetite" book by Penguin to bring me up to date with the current expert-consensus-thinking on this. But instead, it is just another diet book claiming to have found The Truth and explain why The Experts Are All Wrong.

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