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The Pleasure Trap
- Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health & Happiness
- Narrated by: Chef AJ
- Length: 9 hrs
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The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality.
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- Michele
- 2019-09-25
Interesting
Great info on the psychology and physiology of what causes some people to have addictions to things such as drugs, alcohol or food. Food is one you don’t often hear about in regards to addiction and this book gives explanation of the problem and a solution to food addiction too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-03-08
A Life-Changer
Sometimes we just take for granted all the luxuries we have when it comes to food. Combine that with how many of us were raised with information our well-meaning parents thought was accurate about healthy eating, and we have a situation responsible for widespread health trouble. This book is well worth the time and will cast light on things we may not have considered, but will go forward being glad we consider them now! Well done.
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- Brohme
- 2023-10-06
A MUST READ for Everyone that has Even the Smallest Interest in Personal Health
The authors of this book have extreme talent. Many people will comment on the content of this book which is of the highest standard. Information that will not only save lives, but improve the quality of peoples lives. If a person has an open mind, this book is a GameChanger.
Where this book really shines is in how it is written. The anecdotes, and set up for the scientific facts and realities of our lives are brilliant. Direct but not preachy. Informing and entertaining. Well done.
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- Brenda
- 2023-07-02
True to form
Some analogies were interesting. Nothing wrong with water fasting to correct the results of gluttony. But I think it’s more a philosophical issue, when all is said and done. We are pounded with information from early age on from self serving purveyors of all things,some of highly questionable benefit some downright poisonous. Our heads are swimming with advice and threats from all directions…how can one help but to fall into the old pleasure trap chasm just to escape it all….I mean…
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- Joel Rocha Trancoso Junior
- 2023-03-16
Very informative, interesting and eye-opening book
People who read this will get the information needed to potentially improve the quality and quantity of their lives.
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- Yvette
- 2022-09-23
Excellent
Great information worth listening to regularly as you are making changes to your lifestyle. Chef AJ did a fantastic job narrating,
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- Michel Girard
- 2022-02-03
Interesting but major fixation on meat is bad
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Very interesting book with a lot of good information. I actually learned, or understood, many concepts in this book.
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Ok, meat is bad, common, it's a book about the pleasure trap, does every chapter need to finish turning into a debate about how meat will kill you. Book would be better if it was focused on the subject at end, in its current form, it almost feels like hidden propaganda.
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Would read again, but on paper, so it would be easier to skip to pertinent sections.
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- Janice C. Mitchell
- 2021-08-24
Fantastic
I think anyone would benefit from listening to this book. It makes you realize why we do the things we do.
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- Chris
- 2021-04-18
a lot of mainstream propaganda... barf.
scientism at its finest.
reiterating lies doesn't make them true.
Viruses have never been properly isolated and Kochs postulates have never been satisfied to prove contagion.
Einstein was a fraud who married his cousin.
The earth is motionless and bodies of water don't bend 66.6 feet at 10 miles, despite your assurances to the contrary.
next time, stay in your lane and stick to the topic at hand.
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- John Hoffman
- 2021-01-21
Where are the brass tacks?
Sorry Chef AJ, I think you are great BUT in this case, you are not reading a children’s bedtime story book. Your narration style in this book did not flow. It was difficult to understand and grasp what was been read because it was soooo S. L. O. W. You’re voice inflection accents just created confusion not flowing ideas and concepts. But then, you’re just reading the book, you didn’t write it!
The material was so very basic up to at least chapter 5. I don’t think I LEARNED anything, and I’d say that this information in this book was disseminated in high school and I graduated in 1983.
Overall, I was disappointed with this book, but thank you anyhow. I didn’t hit a home run every time I stepped up to the plate either when I played baseball.
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- Marathon
- 2018-07-30
Very interesting information
This book contains information we all can learn from. It was interesting to listen to once. The problem is that I would like to review all the points within the book, but do not want to listen to the whole book again. All the stories are interesting but I am not interested in hearing them again. I think it would help the audio reader if there was a summary at the end where it would be possible to go back and reveiw all the points
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- Erin Greener
- 2018-07-11
The single best read on healthy living
Thank you Dr Alan Goldhamer and Dr. Doug Lisle for this amazing document, you have captured essence of human nature so eloquently when it comes to the struggle of healthy lifestyle decision making and made it understandable and achievable for all of us. Thank you Chef AJ for pushing for the audiable version and doing such a lovely job narrating this incredible body of work, you should be in the Veganism Hall of Fame, oh wait, you are! All of you please keep creating new content, we adore you guys and find it so motivational. J. Greener
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- Holly G. Stone
- 2019-05-10
Painful to listen to and dogmatic
There is very little information here and it is simply repeated over and over. At least through the first half of the book. I couldn't get through the whole thing. The narrator is difficult and stiff to listen to and the content is so simplified with little basis in fact that you keep waiting for it to reveal the "secret". But it never does, or at least nothing that I have not heard before nor anything surprising. The constant harping on how animals automatically control their weight with no issues and "never" have weight problems is dogmatic and stupid. I see plenty of overweight pets who have succumbed to the evils of "fake" food via their humans feeding it to them. And lots of them have our modern illnesses too. Overall, there are a few simple concepts here and an underlying bias for a plant based diet/low fat diet. That's all fine if that's what helps you.
The "satiation" theories are not backed up by science, at least not that I can see. The idea that our bodies can count calories is pretty silly. There is no proof of that.
I would not recommend this book to anyone who has done any research into the modern diet and it's pitfalls. There is nothing new for you here.
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- clandestine
- 2018-12-23
By far the BEST health & nutrition I've read
I am truly amazed at how comprehensive this nutrition book is. I plan to listen to it again from an entertainment perspective alone. The authors go through in detail how we humans went from gathering food to eating highly processed food. It covers science, medicine, biology, the animal kingdom, our microbiomes, nutrition, fitness, sleep, drugs (including caffeine), societal pressures, socio-economic factors, making the transition, handling unsupportive friends and loved ones, debunking myths. They talk about addictions and how food addiction is a very real thing as well. And just like how most addicts need complete abstinence from the drug of choice in order to be completely free of the effects, they recommend a complete and immediate overhaul in eating habits and to abstain from unhealthy eating as well. Yes, they do recommend a way of eating, that of a Whole Food, Plant Based diet, which is one I support and do with reasonable success, even after trying other meat diets like paleo and keto. But this book is much, much bigger than the way you eat. The authors explore many philosophical and theoretical examples to support their claims, as well as hard facts and raw science. I will definitely recommend this book to others.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-07-31
Now I know it’s not my fault
All my life I thought I was weak willed and morally flawed. Thanks to this book I understand that I’ve got a body beautifully programmed to survive a famine but I’m in an environment of abundant crap food. It’s a relief.
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- Sarah Boone
- 2018-09-18
Best book I've ever had the pleasure of reading!
Oh my God! Where do I start! Such a mind blowing read! But confirms what has been in the back of my mind all along! Whole foods plant based diet is how we were meant to eat. I've read Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live Book and Super Immunity, and read his Fasting and Eating For Health book as well. This book goes hand in hand with what Dr. Fuhrman teaches. I highly recommend this book. It's non bias, scientic approach is greatly appreciated! If you're someone who is worried about your health, struggle with binge eating, counting calories, depression, anxiety, this book is for you! I strongly believe that it will be the turning point in helping to give you a strong foundation and motivation to start on this new healthy lifestyle journey. You won't be able to stop listening this book! It talks about the life saving benefits of water only fasting as a powerful way to help cure the pleasure trap. Don't hesitate, just read it as soon as possible!
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- kerrin
- 2020-02-28
Annoying narration! OMG!
Chef AJ is NOT a narrator! So terrible! Over-enunciation, slow, just weird. Awful!
The content should have been 1 hours worth! The rest is stuff and bother! “My editor said I had to beef up here, and here, and here...”
We aren’t idiots! Don’t bang us over the head with a cast iron frying pan! Just get on with it! And hire a real narrator!
If evolutionary, man came from apes, BS is your bag, then this book is for you. Otherwise, go to YouTube for fast, concise, and tolerable explanations of this information are easy found.
Save yourself the money AND the pain!
Now, I need to go heal my bleeding ears.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-09-25
A book worth multiple reads.
Very informative. Easy to listen to and follow the points. Contains many life changing inspirations. A book worth listening to / reading multiple times.
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- JLS
- 2018-08-28
Great life altering content. Highly recommend!
The content is rich with evidence backed information. This can save your life in profound ways. The reader was a pleasure to listen to.
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- JOSEPH A. LYNCH
- 2018-11-28
Facebook is worthless unless you want to learn abo
this book is worthless unless you want to read about the theory of evolution. it does not go into how to fast what to do the proper way.
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