137: Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson: The Science Of Breaking Bad Eating Habits
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you will learn:
- Similarities between drug addiction and food addiction
- What  is Bright Line Eating
- Why the fitness industry is broken
- What's so bad about flour and sugar
- What eating too much sugar does to your brain
- How processed food hijacks your brain
- What is the "susceptibility" scale I
- s overeating an addiction
- What is diathesis-stress model
- The truth about stress
- How to break bad eating habits
- Leptin: How to make this Fat-Burning Hormone work for you
- 5 Ways to quit your worst eating habits
- Is exercise bad for youÂ
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| 0:00.0 | According to the CDC, more than one third of adults in the United States are obese. |
| 0:10.0 | And obesity related conditions that include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancers are some of the leading causes of preventable death. |
| 0:23.4 | On top of that, the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the US |
| 0:28.5 | is billions and billions of dollars. |
| 0:31.8 | That's interesting because when I Google the phrase diet books in Amazon, over a hundred and ninety thousand |
| 0:39.2 | results come up. |
| 0:40.9 | I mean, how many blogs are there dedicated to fitness and nutrition? |
| 0:45.0 | How many personal trainers are out there a field that I'm in that hardly had anybody |
| 0:51.2 | doing it when I first started 17 years ago, |
| 0:53.9 | and now it seems like more and more people |
| 0:57.0 | are getting into it every day. |
| 0:59.9 | What about all the doctors? |
| 1:02.0 | Something is clearly not working. |
| 1:05.6 | And that's why I'm really happy to have my guest on today. |
| 1:09.8 | Her name is Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson, and she is an expert in the psychology and neuroscience |
| 1:19.0 | behind weight loss and more importantly, behind keeping it off. |
| 1:24.4 | So if you're overweight, if you're obese and you've hopped on the yo-yo dieting |
| 1:31.0 | or you tried to diet and you just couldn't stick with it because you kept having food |
| 1:36.0 | cravings. If you have a torturous relationship with food, then you are going to love this episode and learn a lot from this episode because you are not alone. |
| 1:48.0 | In fact, something that I haven't talked about myself is that one of the reasons I got into fitness and I got into exercise and I |
| 1:56.3 | exercise so frequently is because sometimes I have a torturous relationship with food. |
| 2:02.1 | Sometimes if I buy a whole pine of ice cream, |
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