Overweight • 35 like Snackwells. These highly processed foods were loaded in sugar and flour, the two most fattening substances we can eat. No surprise, as a nation we continued to get fatter and fatter after turning away from whole foods and healthy fats, and toward sugar and flour. We barely had a chance against the propaganda. The government was on board with the food pyramid. The TV was filled with commercials pushing highly concentrated diet foods. The magazines were encouraging us to eat low- and non-fat foods filled with sugar. We conditioned our brains to believe it and then we were rewarded for eating it with high doses of dopamine and an increase in overall body fat. The final reason we overdesire food is our inability to process and manage negative emotion. We are never We feel stress, anxiety, or boredom and we deal with it by overeating.