"No one wants to overeat, yet most of us do anyway. Why does our behavior betray our best intentions to eat well and stay slim, and what can we do about it? To answer these simple questions, obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephen J. Guyenet takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the human brain. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain often undermines our weight goals, transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim, and reveals how this mysterious organ makes us who we are" -- Page 4 of cover.

"An obesity and neuroscience researcher explores how food choices are often influenced by brain circuits that control survival instincts and draws on cutting-edge neuroscience to offer guidelines for eating well and maintaining a healthy weight,"--NoveList.