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Dr. Keys’s Minnesota Starvation Experiment first documented the effect of “semi-starvation neurosis.” People who lose weight dream about food. They obsess about food. All they can think about is food. Interest in all else diminishes. This behavior is not some strange affliction of the obese. In fact, it’s entirely hormonally driven and normal. The

The secret of finding your own body’s optimal weight is to eat to support your brain. When your brain is well nourished, your optimal body weight follows as a matter of course. Neurohealthy eating has the happy side effect of supporting your body’s natural metabolism. It’s not a special “diet” requiring willpower and feeling hungry all the time. To

One reason carbohydrate restriction is so effective for many people is that it tends to reduce appetite as well as food choices.

STEP 1: REDUCE YOUR CONSUMPTION OF ADDED SUGARS

As Dr. Ziauddeen, a psychiatrist at the University of Cambridge, noted, “The brain’s reward system and the circuits that control eating behavior are the same ones that respond to drugs of abuse,” but, unlike sugar, “drugs of abuse seem to hijack those systems and turn off their normal controls.”

When adipose tissue, the fat that sits underneath our skin and around our waists, gets broken down during times of starvation, fatty acids are released into the bloodstream to be converted by the liver into a fuel called ketone bodies, or simply ketones. Ketones are easily taken up by the cells of the brain and can supply up to 60 percent of the

“Moderation” is a cop-out answer—a deliberate attempt to evade the hard work of searching for dietary truths.