The Outside Interview: Your Hungry Brain is Making You Fat
If you\u2019ve ever beaten yourself up after eating an entire pint of ice cream, know this: it\u2019s really not your fault. According to obesity researcher and neurobiologist Stephen Guyenet, author of The Hungry Brain\xa0and founder of the wellness and science blog Whole Health Source, millions of years of evolution have hardwired us to seek out sugary, fatty, and salty\xa0foods. All those calories kept us alive back when we were hunter-gathers. Today\xa0they just make us fat. Outside editor Christopher Keyes sits down with Guyenet to discuss why we feel so powerless in the face of decadent desserts, how different systems in our brain compete for dominance, and what we can do to combat all this temptation.