The End of Craving

Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

By: Mark Schatzker

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

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).

©2021 Mark Schatzker. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

This author makes it make sense!

The author does a great job of breaking down how many of the foods we eat are just manufactured chemical substances. The author explains that our brains cannot recognize these mystery foods and therefore does not know how to metabolize them. The author analyzes Italy as a way to compare food consumption in America. His explanations are clear and he references relevant scientific research. Very user friendly!

Love the science.

There is no quick fix. This is an incredible collection of the science behind eating and the history behind it. I loved it!

fabulous book

Should be a required reading for everyone interested in food and good health and living well.

Tried something of a genre outside my usual, Tasty

This was entirely interesting. I was so pleasantly surprised. Highly recommend. The author is surely on to something here.

Changed my Life

Made so much sense and backed up by studies and history. It literally changed my life.

Not much new information

No matter what one says about our evolution, and our biology, in the end, you either control your body weight and your fitness or you do not. The human cerebral cortex is still powerful enough to allow each individual to control their cravings if they choose to do so. The fact that humans are slowly choking under their own body weight tells you all you need to know about most of us.

Another incredible book by Schatzker

This dude puts Pollan to shame. His books are much more enlightening and entertaining as well as intellectual. He treats the reader as an equal, discovering new information that destroys old tropes instead of talking down to the reader/listener. Another book that will change your life if you let it in. Can’t wait for the next book. You will discover all the lies you have been told about food and why nothing you tried so far works. Unbelievably, vitamins and fortified foods are what is making you fat. Again the villain is big ag, big food, and processed junk. Cook everything from scratch and avoid pre made anything. Remarkably Schatzker again hints for those awake to it, at how this food poisoning is all by design, and that ESG/SDG and globalists are toxic for humans and the planet at every level and in everything they do. Thank you Mark Schatzker for researched factual confirmation of what we already knew but couldn’t admit! Keep at it dude!

Not what I expected but interesting nonetheless

Not a diet or epicurean book. Good stories about food, sickness, and cultures and how they relate to the current obesity problem. His conclusion makes sense in that it covers both the carb and keto hypothesis but points the finger at government meddling and capture of and by the food industry. Not too much on solutions though. I wonder what Gary Taubes would make of it?

great information!

Definitely an eye opener about our food. Love this book will incorporate this Information to my everyday life.

An interesting look at food history.

Excellent narration, and a very interesting book. a deep dive into nutrition and food manipulation.