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Mindless Eating
Why We Eat More Than We Think
Mindless Eating explores the diverse messages and influences that constitute our eating habits, which we tend to follow “mindlessly.” It also offers practical solutions on how to exploit these subconscious influences in order help meet our health or weight-loss goals. Please note that the validity of some of the research underlying the author’s work have since been called into question.
- Anyone who can’t manage to stick to their diet
- Anyone who wants to make positive, healthy changes to their life
- Anyone interested in psychology
Brian Wansink was the Professor of Consumer Behavior and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, and Executive Director of the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. He has been accused of academic misconduct in his research, which led to his resignation from Cornell. Several of his research papers have since been retracted.
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Mindless Eating
Why We Eat More Than We Think
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Mindless Eating explores the diverse messages and influences that constitute our eating habits, which we tend to follow “mindlessly.” It also offers practical solutions on how to exploit these subconscious influences in order help meet our health or weight-loss goals. Please note that the validity of some of the research underlying the author’s work have since been called into question.
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Restaurants and marketers can use all kinds of tricks to influence what we eat.
Do you believe that marketing and advertising have no effect on you? Say, when you’re choosing which groceries to buy? “Sure, other people may be swayed by good marketing,” you might think, “but not me!”
And although you wouldn’t be alone in this belief – almost everyone thinks they’re impervious to marketing – it turns out that, when it comes to food, there are some marketing tricks that work on everyone.
First of all, good marketing can make foods seem more appealing.
For example, it has been found that plopping positive descriptive adjectives in front of the names of dishes on restaurant menus generates more sales and greater customer satisfaction than using “boring” names.
In one experiment, a restaurant served the same menu twice, one week apart, but used different names for the same dishes, for example, “Seafood Filet” was transformed into “Succulent Italian Seafood Filet.” Patrons who’d seen the more descriptive name found the dish tastier, and felt better about the restaurant in general, despite the dish being made the exact same way.
Second, brand marketing can also influence our perception of food. For example, we often presume that recognized brands like Coca-Cola or Ben & Jerry’s will taste better than “generic” alternatives. This impression is so powerful that, although blind taste tests indicate we perceive no difference between the brand-name and generic products, we’re still willing to pay more for the brand.
Finally, we’re also affected by things like lighting, music, temperature and decor when we eat – the things we would say comprise the “atmosphere” of the meal. When lights are bright and the music has a quick tempo, we tend to eat more quickly than with slow music and dim or natural light.
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- Restaurants and marketers can use all kinds of tricks to influence what we eat.
- We can manipulate the subconscious factors that affect our appetite to our own benefit.
- The size of your serving – and the plate it’s on – can fool you into eating more than you need.
- We rely on social cues to tell us when to stop eating rather than listening to our body.
- Our inability to accurately gauge portion sizes can lead to serious overeating.
- Improve the health of your whole family by controlling the food you buy and the meals you cook.
- Modest, incremental changes to your diet are the best strategy for long-term weight loss.
- Tracking what you’ve already eaten during a meal can help you eat less.
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