The End of Craving, Mark Schatzker
The End of Craving, Mark Schatzker
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The End of Craving
Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

Author: Mark Schatzker

Narrator: Gibson Frazier

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/09/2021


Synopsis

The international bestseller from award-winning writer Mark Schatzker that reveals how our dysfunctional relationship with food began—and how science is leading us back to healthier living and eating.

For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the unhealthier we become. Why?

Mark Schatzker has spent his career traveling the world in search of the answer. Now, in The End of Craving, he poses the profound question: What if the key to nutrition and good health lies not in resisting the primal urge to eat but in understanding its purpose?

Beginning in the mountains of Europe and the fields of the Old South, Schatzker embarks on a quest to uncover the lost art of eating and living well. Along the way, he visits brain scanning laboratories and hog farms, and encounters cultural oddities and scientific paradoxes—northern Italians eat what may be the world’s most delicious cuisine, yet are among the world’s thinnest people; laborers in southern India possess an inborn wisdom to eat their way from sickness to good health. Schatzker reveals how decades of advancements in food technology have turned the brain’s drive to eat against the body, placing us in an unrelenting state of craving. Only by restoring the relationship between nutrition and the pleasure of eating can we hope to lead longer and happier lives.

Combining cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, The End of Craving is an urgent and radical investigation that “charts a roadmap not just for healthy eating, but for joyous eating, too” (Dan Barber, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Plate).

About Mark Schatzker

Mark Schatzker is an award-winning writer based in Toronto. He is a writer-in-residence at the Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center at Yale University, and a frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Condé Nast Traveler, and Bloomberg Pursuits. He is the author of The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor and Steak: One Man’s Search for the World’s Tastiest Piece of Beef.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MookNana on September 30, 2021

Aaaahhhh! I just about died when I flicked to the next page and saw the word "Acknowledgements". I was so sure we were about to get to the part of the book where we discussed what to actually DO about the problems so thoroughly identified and dissected and then...no. It's not that there weren't hint......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on December 01, 2021

Over the last six decades, obesity rates have more than tripled in the US. Whereas only 10 percent of US adults were considered obese in the 1950s, that number shot up to 35 percent by 2012. Clearly, something has gone horribly wrong, and blaming it entirely on our evolved tendency to overeat, as is......more

Goodreads review by L Ann on July 02, 2023

The studies presented in this book are among the most fascinating that I've come across in the field of food science or healthy eating. I was floored by the implications of many of these studies and surprised that I've never heard of the majority of them. I will never look at anything that is boxed,......more

Goodreads review by Karen on June 16, 2021

With the plethora of books on nutrition, diet, health and food disorders available, this book stands out as an entertaining and informative exploration of how we have lost the natural joy of eating. This is not another “how-to” manual based on yet another theory or prescription for healthy eating. R......more

Goodreads review by Martina on January 05, 2022

This book should get five stars for originality and willingness to question long-established paradigms, as well as the occasional insights into what went wrong with the so-called SAD (standard American diet). However--and this is a big however--the author takes unforgivable liberties in espousing un......more


Quotes

"The accessible information will help struggling dieters reduce cravings by understanding the distinction between the dopamine high of wanting and the actual enjoyment of food. Its well-documented guidance will revolutionize the way people think about the dynamics of hunger and their nutritional needs."