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Foreword | |
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Introduction: You Are the Target | |
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Sugar, Fat, Salt | |
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Something Changed … America Gained Weight | |
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Overriding the Wisdom of the Body | |
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Sugar, Fat, and Salt Make Us Eat More Sugar, Fat, and Salt | |
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The Business of Food: Creating Highly Rewarding Stimuli | |
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Pushing Up Our Settling Points | |
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Sugar, Fat, and Salt Are Reinforcing | |
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Amping Up the Neurons | |
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We Are Wired to Focus Attention on the Most Salient Stimuli | |
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Rewarding Foods Become Hot Stimuli | |
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Cues Activate Brain Circuits That Guide Behavior | |
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Emotions Make Food Memorable | |
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Rewarding Foods Rewire the Brain | |
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Eating Behavior Becomes a Habit | |
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The Food Industry | |
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A Visit to Chili's | |
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Cinnabon: A Lesson in Irresistibility | |
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That's Entertainment | |
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The Era of the Monster Thickburger | |
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No Satisfaction | |
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Giving Them What They Like | |
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What Consumers Don't Know | |
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The Ladder of Irresistibility | |
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The World's Cuisine Becomes Americanized | |
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Nothing Is Real | |
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Optimize It! | |
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The Science of Selling | |
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Purple Cows | |
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Conditioned Hypereating Emerges | |
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Overeating Becomes More Dangerous | |
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What Weight-Loss Drugs Can Teach Us | |
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Why We Don't Just Say No | |
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How We Become Trapped | |
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Conditioned Hypereating Emerges | |
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Tracing the Roots of Conditioned Hypereating | |
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Nature or Nurture? | |
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Warning Signs in Children | |
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The Culture of Overeating | |
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The Theory of Treatment | |
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Invitations to the Brain | |
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Reversing the Habit | |
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Rules of Disengagement | |
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Emotional Learning | |
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Food Rehab | |
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The Treatment Framework | |
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Planned Eating | |
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Letting Go of the Past | |
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Eating Is Personal | |
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Avoiding Traps: On Obsession and Relapse | |
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Making the Critical Perceptual Shift | |
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The End of Overeating | |
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�Our Success Is the Problem� | |
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Industry Cracks the Code | |
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Fighting Back | |
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A Final Word | |
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Q&A with Dr. Kessler | |
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Endnotes | |
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List Of Author Interviews | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |
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About The Author | |