In January of this year, I handed in a complete manuscript draft of my first book, The Hungry Brain , to my editor at Flatiron Books . This book represents more than two full-time years of my life, and I can't wait for it to hit shelves. It's markedly different from any other book in its category, and believe it has the potential to substantially change the public conversation on eating behavior and obesity. In the process of writing The Hungry Brain , I read countless papers and interviewed 36 leading researchers in the fields of neuroscience, obesity research, and anthropology. I had my brain scanned in an fMRI machine while looking at junk food. I commissioned and compiled 47 illustrations, schematics, and graphs, mostly by a skilled medical illustrator named Shizuka Aoki . Yet the book will be accessible to anyone who loves science. This book is not about me or my world views. It's not a conspiracy story about how everything we've been told is actually w