In this account, the author uncovers the multilayered influences that have conditioned millions of people to overeat, explaining how combinations of fat, sugar, and salt; food cues; and the cultural norms we can't easily ignore have hijacked our brain circuitry, and showing how we can regain control. Original.
DAVID A. KESSLER, MD, served as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is a pediatrician and has been the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. A graduate of Amherst College, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kessler is the father of two and lives with his wife in California.