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Part One:
Essential Eating and Using Food as Fuel
Chapter One:
Getting Back to the Basics: instincts and adaptation
Chapter Description:
For both animal species and humans, the body is capable of doing amazing
things to adapt to increases or decreases in the availability of food.
All living species are programmed to make vital changes in eating habits
whenever a threat is perceived. In both humans and animals, this type of
physiological "adaptation" is orchestrated by the sympathetic nervous
system (e.g., the endocrine system) via hormone secretions which are
reflexive and not under our control. This chapter will discuss the
endocrine system's role in both obesity and emaciation. The goal of
this chapter is to help you identify when you are and are not eating
for essential reasons; which is a necessary step in controlling compulsive
overeating.
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Chapter Outline:
- Chapter One:
Getting Back to the Basics: instincts and adaptation
- Adaptive Homeostasis Among Animals
- Human Survival of Famine and Feasts
- Physiology and Why You'll Never Say "Diet" Again
- The Physiology of Stress Induced by Fasting
- Anorexia: a modern day famine when food is abundant
- Unlocking Anorexia
- Obesity and Anorexia Side by Side: implications for permanent weight loss
- No Wonder You're Hungry
- How You Lose Determines What You Lose
- Why The Scale Lies
- Cortisol and Insulin: partners in crime
- My To Do List
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