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The End of Craving
- Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunctional relationship with food began—and how science is leading us back to healthier living and eating.
For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the unhealthier we become. Why?
Mark Schatzker has spent his career traveling the world in search of the answer. Now, in The End of Craving, he poses the profound question: What if the key to nutrition and good health lies not in resisting the primal urge to eat but in understanding its purpose?
Beginning in the mountains of Europe and the fields of the Old South, Schatzker embarks on a quest to uncover the lost art of eating and living well. Along the way, he visits brain scanning laboratories and hog farms, and encounters cultural oddities and scientific paradoxes—northern Italians eat what may be the world’s most delicious cuisine, yet are among the world’s thinnest people; laborers in southern India possess an inborn wisdom to eat their way from sickness to good health. Schatzker reveals how decades of advancements in food technology have turned the brain’s drive to eat against the body, placing us in an unrelenting state of craving. Only by restoring the relationship between nutrition and the pleasure of eating can we hope to lead longer and happier lives.
Combining cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, The End of Craving is an urgent and radical investigation that “charts a roadmap not just for healthy eating, but for joyous eating, too” (Dan Barber, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Plate).
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- kav
- 2023-01-29
Important
Anyone studying nutrition, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cooking needs to read this. It’s a nonnegotiable.
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- tracey
- 2021-11-17
Fascinating!
Recommend this book to everyone! Especially all those who cling to the next best diet…
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- Bonananda
- 2022-05-16
A lot of detail for nothing
I was very very disappointed in this book. In my opinion it did not deliver what it promised. The author gives so much information and in considerable detail, going on about stories about snakes and pigs etc. He goes on at length about the joy of savouring a small piece of dark chocolate. The bottom line, he says at the end, is that we need to give up processed fake foods and go back to real whole foods. That will end our cravings and bring us back to a balanced enjoyment of foods like the Italians have. They are apparently slim despite what they eat, because they enjoy their food, because it’s real. There was nothing here that I felt helpful towards ending my cravings. There was nothing I didn’t already know and haven’t put into practice without success.
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- Donyne L Plankenhorn
- 2022-01-09
Not what you expect.
Lots of good info and stories but this book should have been called “why we crave.”
There’s no end to craving explanation in it until the last chapter. Barely at that.
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