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Books like The End of Overeating
The best books like The End of Overeating are Salt Sugar Fat, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler is about food addiction, neuroscience, appetite. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Salt Sugar Fat
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Michael Moss · Science
Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, spent four years inside the processed food industry to produce Salt Sugar Fat.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan · Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.
A kindred science read.
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- The Willpower Instinct
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Kelly McGonigal · Self-help
The Willpower Instinct is based on Kelly McGonigal's popular ten-week science of willpower course at Stanford University's Continuing Studies program.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - How Not to Die
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Michael Greger · Health
How Not to Die is Michael Greger's systematic argument that the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle change.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson · Science
Altered Traits is a careful assessment of what neuroscience actually knows about meditation, written by two researchers who have spent their careers at the intersection of contemplative practice and empirical science.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - How to Change Your Mind
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Michael Pollan · Science
Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late in life, as a skeptic.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - How to Create a Mind
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Ray Kurzweil · Science
Ray Kurzweil's central claim in How to Create a Mind is that the neocortex — the part of the brain responsible for higher thought — operates on a single repeating algorithm called the pattern recognition theory of mind.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - The Distracted Mind
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Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen · Science
The Distracted Mind brings together two distinct research traditions — cognitive neuroscience and psychology of technology — to explain why modern humans find sustained attention so difficult and what can be done about it.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
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John Coates · Science
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is John Coates's argument that financial markets are driven partly by biology, and specifically by the hormonal systems — testosterone and cortisol in particular — that evolved to prepare the body for physical challenges and that now operate on traders making millisecond decisions.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - The Organized Mind
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Daniel J. Levitin · Science
Daniel Levitin's argument is that the human brain's organizational architecture was built for a very different world — one with far fewer decisions, far less information, and far lower cognitive demand than the environment most people now navigate daily.
Both dig into neuroscience.
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Books like The End of Overeating: quick answers
What are the best books like The End of Overeating?
The best books like The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler are Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The End of Overeating, such as food addiction, neuroscience, appetite.
What should I read after The End of Overeating?
A natural next read after The End of Overeating is Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss. A kindred science read. Other strong choices are In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal.
What books are similar to The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler?
The End of Overeating centers on food addiction, neuroscience, appetite. Books with a similar feel include Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
