The Mental Aspect of Eating Healthier

Brian Wansink is a professor at Cornell Universtity who does some very interesting studies on the mental aspects of eating. He watches how humans react to different eating situations, in his new book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. I would love to people to observe the habits that we have when it comes to eating. In one experiment he had a bowl of tomato soup and as the people would eat it, he would continuously pump the soup into the bowl from a device under the table. People kept eating and eating, and some of them ate as much as a quart. It's like the never-ending pasta bowl at Olive Garden, without having to ask the waiter to give you another bowl!

I really don't think people grasp why they do the things they do when it comes to eating. I really want to put this on my list of books to read soon. It looks fascinating.

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