An expert on eating and weight disorders, Dr. Abramson is a professor of psychology at California State University, and a former director of the Eating Disorders Center at Chico Community Hospital.  He has appeared on 20/20, Hard Copy, PBS, and other TV and radio programs.  He has been quoted in articles in several publications, including Reader's Digest, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Self, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Body Intelligence is one of few diet books to extensively examine the causes and solutions to issue of emotional eating. Abramson explains that, as children, we learned the "rules of eating" from our parents, and friends.  We learned the structure of eating meals and snacks, the context of eating (do's and don't of where to eat) and the appropriateness of food and food combinations.  Body Intelligence advises you to look more carefully at what is happening when you say you are hungry.  What are your motivations for eating?  What type of hunger are you experiencing? When you know why you want to eat, you will be able to fill that need, often with less food, or sometimes without eating anything.  You will learn to identify the types of external cues that trigger your eating and determine the proper response to those cues.