Beyond Metabolism Quotes

“The act of starving yourself only guarantees a ravenous appetite.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“The cycle of deprivation, indulgence, further deprivation and so on illustrates how all overly restrictive diets fail us.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“Cheap food tends to be highly-refined and layered with sugar, like the Frosted Flakes described previously. Sugar in all its forms has a direct effect on the dopamine response as we determined.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“Once again, when you fully understand the neural circuitry of the brain’s reward center to seek survival and emotional rewards, it becomes easier to see how diets are part of the problem, and by themselves are never the solution.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“Gordon Shepherd MD and PhD at Yale School of Medicine, said this: “The industry is geared to over-stimulating the senses of the consumer so that they eat more. The goal is to activate the parts of the brain that are susceptible to being conditioned to finding a product desirable and then wanting more of it.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“Dietary fat was singled out as the most villainous culprit responsible for weight gain and declining health. The food industry adjusted by replacing saturated animal fats with “heart healthy,” super-processed vegetable seed oils, and high fructose corn syrup. Soon, our average body weight started to rise, and it did so quickly.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It

“No other animal on the planet needs to be told what, when, why or how to eat, how to eat, and neither did we, until recently.”
― Scott Abel, Beyond Metabolism: How Your Brain, Biology, and the Environment Create and Perpetuate Weight Issues …and What You Can Do About It