Mindless Eating
Why We Eat More Than We Think
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4.0 • 70 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
This book will literally change the way you think about your next meal.
Food psychologist Brian Wansink revolutionizes our awareness of how much, what, and why we’re eating—often without realizing it. His findings will astound you.
• Can the size of your plate really influence your appetite?
• Why do you eat more when you dine with friends?
• What “hidden persuaders” are used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to overeat?
• How does music or the color of the room influence how much—and how fast—we eat?
• How can we “mindlessly” lose—instead of gain—up to twenty pounds in the coming year?
Starting today, you can make more mindful, enjoyable, and healthy choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, at the office—wherever you satisfy your appetite.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
According to Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, the mind makes food-related decisions, more than 200 a day, and many of them without pause for actual thought. This peppy, somewhat pop-psych book argues that we don't have to change what we eat as much as how, and that by making more mindful food-related decisions we can start to eat and live better. The author's approach isn't so much a diet book as a how-to on better facilitating the interaction between the feed-me messages of our stomachs and the controls in our heads. In their particulars, the research summaries are entertaining, like an experiment that measured how people ate when their plates were literally "bottomless," but the cumulative message and even the approach feels familiar and not especially fresh. Wansink examines popular diets like the South Beach and Atkins regimes, and offers a number of his own strategies to help focus on what you eat: at a dinner party, "try to be the last person to start eating." Whether readers take time to weigh their decisions and their fruits and vegetables remains to be seen.
Customer Reviews
Couldn't put it down
A wildly entertaining book! Not to mention very informative. Sheds light on a new way of thinking about food. Offers great insight, and keeps you smiling and engaged all the way through with its tongue-in-cheek humor. A great read that is unlike anything else out there. Highly recommend for yourself or as a gift fit the food lover you know.
A book with an eating explanation
This book helped me see eating in a whole new light. I appreciate learning about eating.
Worth a read
Great stories that really surprise and amaze. Good information presented in a readable tone. Enjoyed it!