Promiscuous Eating: Understanding and Ending Our Self-Destructive Relationship with Food will provide you with the insight, tools and motivation that are needed to develop a more harmonious relationship with food…and to ultimately take control of your own health destiny. This book will prove helpful under a variety of circumstances: if you eat for the wrong reasons; if you eat the wrong foods; if you are unaware of exactly what is in what you are eating; if you eat without regard to consequence; or if you eat too much, too rapidly, or at the wrong times or places.Animated by illuminating vignettes of the real-life eating behaviors of men, women and children interviewed by the author, PROMISCUOUS EATING examines one of our most intimate relationships: that of our relationship with food. For far too many of us, this has gone awry, culminating in a multitude of health-damaging issues that can sabotage the quality and the quantity of our lives. These problems include obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as loss of our self-esteem and ability to participate in activities that we wish to. By understanding the intricacies of our unique behaviors vis-à-vis food, we are enabled to amend this relationship. The resultant change in diet and eating habits can be transformative — if not life saving — in terms of preventing and/or reversing the havoc wreaked by unhealthy, inappropriate and dysfunctional consumption. By cultivating mindful eating strategies, we can commence the journey towards becoming enlightened and conscientious eaters, liberating ourselves from emotional, mindless and promiscuous eating patterns and changing our relationship with food from foe to friend. 5.0 out of 5 stars Promiscuous Eating brilliantly and passionately illuminates why so many of us continue to struggle with weight issues. In Promiscuous Eating, Dr. Andrew Siegel brilliantly and passionately illuminates why so many of us continue to struggle with weight issues, even though we know the dangers to our health. We are simply not mindful or disciplined eaters. Dr. Siegel's candor regarding the toxic foods we ingest every day is nothing short of startlingly. It is clear, from this most timely book, that there is no magic bullet in achieving a healthy body. But we should not despair. Dr. Siegel empowers us with a detailed `road map' to healthy and enjoyable eating. I particularly sparked to the importance of learning to identify the difference between hunger on an emotional basis and hunger on a physical basis. This concept gave me pause - like so many of us who are overweight, I overindulge for the very reasons Dr. Siegel espouses: stress, fatigue, boredom and the need for immediate gratification - all emotional states that I learned in Promiscuous Eating can be soothed with a plethora of alternate activities, including exercise (and even a `warm bath.' ) Although I hate to exercise, reading Promiscuous Eating (together with Dr. Siegel's first book, Finding Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Health, Wellness, Fitness and Longevity) has finally convinced me that exercise is essential to a healthy mind and body. Promiscuous Eating also provides us with a rare glimpse into the intimate eating habits of several individuals - why they eat, where they eat and what they eat. Dr. Siegel draws the curtain back and thoughtfully and non-judgmentally reveals our universal compulsion to overeat and in so doing allows us to better understand the drivers for our destructive eating habits-- habits that will contribute to heart disease, cancer and diabetes among other illnesses and, ultimately, a premature death. The message telegraphed in this life saving book is `loud and clear' -- we need to take control of our destructive eating now. Promiscuous Eating will enlighten you and most importantly inspire you to love and care for yourself enough to immediately begin the very personal journey to achieving a healthier relationship with food. I am grateful to Dr. Siegel for caring so deeply about `our collective health and well being' that he takes time from his busy medical practice to write wellness books that will, no doubt, lead us to longer, happier lives. --F. Kane (Los Angeles, CA, USA) A wonderful, much needed, highly readable and informative book. Everyone can relate to it, if even in secret with just him or her self admitting to these behaviors. This last year I have been obsessed with food due to a problem of insulinoma. It is indeed carbs that do all kinds of bad stuff. I eat only healthly carbs, such as fruit and whole grains and have gained a lot of weight. Luckily I was thin at the start. The good news is that the high insulin, low blood sugar has just about returned to normal this last month so I am very excited to return to normal eating, using your book as a quide. This is an important book to have for anyone dealing with body or food issues, overweight or not and just wan