Have you ever wondered why you just can't seem to say no to fattening foods, alcohol, or troubling behaviors like overspending and overworking?

The answer is not that you're lazy, self-indulgent or undisciplined. The problem lies in your body chemistry.

Helping us to free ourselves from sugar dependency, DesMaisons explains how certain food-dependent chemicals in the brain regulate our moods. Once we understand how these biochemicals react to what we eat -- or what we don't eat -- we are free to control our lives.