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It's why poor people don't usually eat as much meat as rich folks. So now add a second level to that and imagine the cost of raising cattle only to feed them to something else. Carnivores are rarer than herbivores in the wild for a similar reason - they're food limited.
- Food = Pleasure
- Food For Thought
- Your Eyes Eat First
- The Mindless Margin
- Out of Sight, Out of Stomach
- Positive Difficulty
- Food Vision
- Smaller = Thinner
- Power of 3
- Your Food Story
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that food is the enemy. Food is and should be a pleasure. One of the scientific food principles that intrigued me most was the idea that we shouldn’t restrict our eating. Every diet ever tells you to cut out or eliminate certain foods. The diet tips we hear all the time: 1. No carbs. 2. Eliminate anything white. 3. No...
One of my favorite food science studies has to do with wine–also one of my favorite foods! In this study, researchers wanted to know if what you thinkabout food effects how you eat. Researchers got $2 wine and put two different labels on them. One said the wine was from North Dakota and the other said the wine was from California. North Dakota is n...
This builds upon #2 with a slight twist. How your food is presented is just as important as how it tastes. In other words, presentation is everything. In one study, researchers gave brownies to 3 groups of participants. The brownies were exactly the same but presented in different ways: 1. Group #1 got the brownie on a nice china dish. 2. Group #2 ...
Wansink explains something called “The mindless margin” which is a span of about 200 calories that can make the difference between gaining 10 pounds in a year (by eating 100 calories more a day) or losing 10 pounds in a year (by eating 100 calories less a day). The reason he calls it mindless is because your brain and body won’t even notice that th...
Wansink found that when secretaries sit near clear dishes filled with Hershey’s Kisses, they ate 71 percent more — or 77 calories a day — than those sitting near opaque dishes of Kisses. Over the course of a year this adds up to more than five pounds of extra weight. We eat what we see because if we walk by the kitchen without a craving but see a r...
One idea Wansink shares quite convincingly is the idea that convenience leads to consumption and distractions really can slow us down. A few seconds can change how you eat. The closer bad food is, the more you eat it. The closer good food is, the more you eat it. Case in point: Some terrible person (my mother) sent me Easter candy. It was on my kit...
Use your brain and vision to help you curb your eating. Wansink found a few interesting psychological behaviors around eating: 1. When we put all of our food on one plate–in other words see it all at once instead of going back for small plates, we eat less. 2. When we see how much we have eaten, we stop eating. Don’t throw away those rib bones as y...
You have probably heard this one before, but it is worth reminding you: 1. EVERYONE eats more if given a larger portion. Wansink gave free popcorn to movie-goers in either Medium or large-tubs. Those with the big popcorn buckets ate 53% more–even though eaters said size wouldn’t effect their snacking. 2. Interesting fact:People of normal weight ten...
This post and the book are filled with tiny changes. Wansink gives an interesting tip to change small habits one day at a time. He recommends trying to implement 3 changes each day and keeping track with a simple chart. Make a chart with a column for each day of the month. Then put 3 small changes on the right side. As you go through the month put ...
One concept Wansink introduced me to was the idea of a food narrative or food story. Our favorite foods all come from an emotional place. He builds mental maps of where cravings come from. I decided to do this for myself with one of my favorite foods: DONUTS. I frickin’ love donuts. I decided to dig deep into what my emotional ties are to the food....
May 9, 2024 · What is the psychology of eating? What we eat affects how we feel. Food should make us feel good. It tastes great and nourishes our bodies. But if you eat too little or eat too much, your health and quality of life could be affected. This can result in negative feelings toward food.
Dec 20, 2023 · What happens in vagus. The gut-brain axis, or the biochemical connection between your gut and your brain, shapes feeding behaviors in many ways. One of them involves the vagus nerve, a cranial...
There are many reasons why we begin to eat-- from boredom, hunger, because it's our routine or the time that other people are eating. We maybe eat for energy, we maybe eat as a response to stress, or we see it as a reward. An answer to the question, why do we eat-- this seems very obvious.
Jul 2, 2018 · Do you eat to live or live to eat? We have a complicated relationship with food, influenced by cost, availability and even peer pressure. But something we all share is appetite – our desire to...
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Nov 22, 2016 · The first is, food is made of chemicals and each food is made up of a different mix of chemicals that activate your taste system in different ways. If a food has more sugar it will activate more of your sweet taste. The second reason is that because chemicals in our food also activate our smell receptors.
