Your Brain: The Missing Manual

From a neurological standpoint, your desire for food is ruled by a cocktail of neurotransmitters and hormones that scientists have yet to puzzle out in its entirety.

However, neurons don't stretch everywhere, and they aren't nuanced enough to take every interaction into account. For that reason, your brain has another system that allows it to control the body—the endocrine system.

When your brain needs to exert its control over a body part—either consciously or unconsciously—it simply triggers the right combination of neurons.

From an evolutionary standpoint, the human brain is a relatively recent development, with its sudden increase in size and pumped-up cerebral cortex happening just a few hundred thousand years ago. However, from the perspective of an individual human like yourself, the human brain is unimaginably old

Caffeine is sold in various permutations, including as a blend of water and roasted fruit pits (where it's called coffee) and as a mix of water and dried leaves (where it's called tea)

Against this backdrop

The set point theory suggests that your human brain has an ideal weight picked out for you

it isn't daft enough

squarely against them

could gorge themselves