Weekly Vlog: The Badly Behaving Brain is Published!
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- To read the article, click here: www.intechopen.com/online-fir...
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I am thrilled to announce the publication of an academic review article I wrote with Dr. Andrew Kurt Thaw: “The Badly Behaving Brain: How Ultra-Processed Food Addiction Thwarts Sustained Weight Loss.” It’s a chapter in the forthcoming academic book called Weight Loss: A Multidisciplinary Perspective and the chapter is available online now via Open Access Publishing (www.intechopen.com/online-fir....
The article speaks to the science of the relationship between food addiction and weight loss. It’s similar to the science I presented in the book Bright Line Eating-but that was published seven or eight years ago and the field has exploded since then.
About Open Access publishing: when you click the link, you can access and download a PDF of the article. Most scientific articles require you to have an academic affiliation to access them. I can see them because I’m a professor at the University of Rochester, but they are not available to the general public.
However, Open Access allows anyone to read scientific articles. With this model, we, the authors, pay for access-in this case, since it was a British publication, it cost us 1,400 pounds to get this published. Because we paid that fee, we’ve financed your ability to read the article.
On the one hand, this new trend in academic publishing means that ANYONE in the world now who has an internet connection can now access cutting-edge scientific information at its source. The downside, though, is that it makes the playing field for publishing even more un-level, impacting early-career scientists and scientists from poorer countries disproportionately.
Two things surprised me in writing this article.
The first is how much the field of weight loss science has progressed. We accessed a meta-analysis that looked at all the studies that have used the Yale Food Addiction Scale. There were an astounding 6,425 articles that used the Scale! What they found is that an estimated 20 percent of the population has food addiction.
The other thing that surprised me was a number in that meta-analysis. They looked at it by weight class, and for people living with obesity, they found 28 percent tested out as having food addiction.
That’s not what I’ve found with the Food Addiction Susceptibility Scale. By my instrument, 33 percent of the people with class one obesity are high on the Food Addiction Susceptibility Scale and 56 percent of those with higher classes of obesity test out high on the Scale.
What I learned from writing this article, however, is that you can have multiple symptoms of food addiction, but if you don't answer the right way to the questions asking you if you have clinically significant impairment or distress, then it won’t tag you as having food addiction, even if you have the symptoms.
So, someone might say their eating habits aren’t causing them distress, but then you ask them how their work life is, for example, and they tell you they’ve been out on disability. Or they tell you they can’t exercise, or they’re in pain-but they don’t associate this with impairment. So I don’t buy the 28 percent number.
There’s a graph at the end of the article that looks at weight-loss drugs compared to Noom, Weight Watchers, the Zone Diet, and others, and it’s stunning: Bright Line Eating does as good a job as weight-loss drugs at helping people lose weight. Weight loss drugs and Bright Line Eating are the only two that address addiction. Weight loss drugs do that by modulating the dopamine response in the mesolimbic pathway in the brain. BLE does it by healing that part of the brain with the foods you eat, stopping the relentless flow of dopamine that is causing those receptors to downregulate.
I encourage you to read this article, take it to your doctor, show it to your friends, and pass it around. This article can help advance the field. It’s very satisfying to put it out into the world. I hope you enjoy it. You can access it right here: www.intechopen.com/online-fir...
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Wow incredible, congrats Susan on your constant perseverance. So grateful for you. Thks you ❤
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Congratulations Susan! I know this was a big project for you and so meaningful to get out into the world. More people need to know about food addiction and BLE.
We appreciate your words 💓🌟🧡
Congratulations, Dr. Pierce Thompson! I have downloaded the article and look forward to reading it, taking it in and sharing it.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for the honest info on Open Access Publishing costs and the cost/benefits of that.
Congratulations! Greetings from Germany. And thank you so much! I got many valuable insights from you and am following you closely. I'm not even overweight and still consider myself somewhat addicted to food in a negative way. And I have great respect for everyone in the community who IS overweight or obese... Keep going and returning to the path of BLE! From my visits to the US I understand that the food environment in the US is so much more difficult for everyone than here in Europe. Love to you all, be strong!
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DOWNLOADED. I'm going to share with the health promotion team in my local council.
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Congratulations, I’m looking forward to reading the article & sharing. Thank you!
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Thanks for reading!
Yay, Susan! The article looks really good.
Yay! 👏👏
I am so happy for you,congratulations!!
Thank you!
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Congratulations on your published article!
We're very excited 🌟🌟
Congrats - Keep pounding out the academic support for this science!!!!
Yeah! Thank you!
Congratulations!!!!!
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We do appreciate that!! 🌟
How interesting that the Yale Scale only looks at subjective experience of harm/impairment/distress - without taking denial into account.... Don't all of the usual approaches to diagnosing addiction take into account objective measures of physical and social harm (including assessments of colleagues, family, friends)?
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Love this lady
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Hi Susan! I have experienced burnout with bright line eating in the past, I feel like I just want to have different combinations of food. Have you ever experienced this? How would you recommend dealing with this?
Hi there. This is definitely the sort of question that we'd recommend a member call in to get coaching around, to really get at the root of WHY you're looking for different foods, what is at the root of that, what's driving it. If that is not an option for you, you could write in and suggest Susan shoot a vlog about it here: www.brightlineeating.com/vlog-ideas/
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How were you able to download the article? I can read the comments, but I don’t see a link to download the article. Thanks in advance.
Same here...where is it???
Hi there, the link is listed at the top of the description, once you click the link the article is right on that page. However, if you would like to download it, there is a red button on the right hand side of the screen that says "Register to Download for Free." It will download in a PDF format. We hope this helps 🧡 Here is the link to the article again: www.intechopen.com/online-first/1178624
@@alexisodonahue3858 Hi there, the link is listed at the top of the description, once you click the link the article is right on that page. However, if you would like to download it, there is a red button on the right hand side of the screen that says "Register to Download for Free." It will download in a PDF format. We hope this helps 🧡 Here is the link to the article again: www.intechopen.com/online-first/1178624
Susan -Hoping this article gives some "teeth" to your May 17th London meeting! Congrats!
Thank you!
Have you sent a copy to Stephan Guyenet?
Whatever happened to getting bright line eating as an acceptable diet that the health care system would support and allow people to follow it that aren't financially fit enough to follow the plan?
Hi there! 🧡We're not exactly sure what you're referring to, but perhaps you're wondering if Bright Line Eating is covered by health insurance? If you have been diagnosed with a condition (including, but not limited to, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, back pain, acid reflux, arthritis, or PCOS) you may qualify to use the pre-tax funds in your FSA, HRA, or HSA account to pay for your BLE course(s) or membership. You can learn more here: www.brightlineeating.com/fsa-hra-hsa
Unfortunately, my HSA would not allow me to use funds to pay for Boot Camp or membership.
Hi there. We'd encourage you to write into our support team at support.brightlineeating.com so they can dig into the particulars and assist you with this. 🧡
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much! 🌟💓