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  • Secrets from the Eating Lab

  • The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again
  • Written by: Traci Mann PhD
  • Narrated by: Donna Postel
  • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Written by: Traci Mann PhD
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From her office in the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work, they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food - the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive.

In Secrets from the Eating Lab, Mann challenges assumptions - including those that make up the very foundation of the weight loss industry - about how diets work and why they fail. The result of more than two decades of research, it offers cutting-edge science and exciting new insights into the American obesity epidemic and our relationship with eating and food.

©2015 Traci Mann (P)2015 Tantor
Psychology Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating
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" Secrets from the Eating Lab offers a behind-the-scenes look into one of the most ingenious and creative labs in the country." (Brian Wansink, PhD, author of Mindless Eating)

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dont do it!

This book was bad... like really bad. It was literally all the things you shouldn't do. not what you should do. She just spoke of case study after care study. It was very disappointing. She basically says you are going to be fat, there is nothing you can do. Diets are bad and hurt you, down restrict your eating. According to her you are within 15 lbs of you natural set weight. A bunch of hokum as she likes to say. Save your money.

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