Sublime

The ANDI ranks food on a scale of 1 to 1,000, with the most nutrient-dense cruciferous leafy green vegetables (such as kale, collards, and mustard greens) scoring 1,000. You can find a comprehensive list of ANDIs in my book Nutritarian Handbook & ANDI Food Scoring Guide (2010). The ANDI was used by Whole Foods Market for years and increased the

What actually causes weight gain and what can we do about it? This question is the overall theme of this book.

If you consciously try and lose weight by traditional means (i.e. eating less and moving more with no change to the quality of the food you eat), your powerful negative feedback mechanism will force your weight back up. It becomes a struggle of wills between your conscious desire to be a particular weight and your brain’s subconscious power to

(A survey of 121 studies3 found that a variety of popular diets, no matter what theory they promoted or which celebrity promoted them, showed no effect on weight after a year.)

For the first time in history, there are more overweight than underweight humans walking the Earth.5 With our bodies constantly in a “fed” state, an ancient balance has been lost, one that has set us up for low brain energy, accelerated aging, and decay.

The slow drip of cortisol from chronic stress not only kickstarts reward eating in many people but also erodes their self-restraint. This creates “a potent formula for obesity,” wrote Potenza. “[Because] food is an inexpensive resource for providing…short-term pleasure and relief from discomfort.”