A food psychologist identifies hidden factors, motivations, and cues that cause overeating and offers practical solutions to help avoid these hidden traps and enjoy food without putting on excess pounds.
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A food psychologist identifies hidden factors, motivations, and cues that cause overeating and offers practical solutions to help avoid these hidden traps and enjoy food without putting on excess pounds.
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M. JEFFREY MCMAHON
"herculodge"
(Torrance, CA USA)
Brian Wanskik, who conducts eating research in a strange experimental restaurant lab, uses his findings well in this fun-to-read book about the subtle sensory cues that encourage us to eat more than we should. Using common sense and science, he debunks all fad diets as creating more harm than good and then proceeds to show that biologically speaking our optimum weight-loss rate should be no more than a half a pound a week so we don't short-circuit our metabolism. Throughout the book, he peppers his chapters with "Reengineering Strategies." If we follow these easy-to-follow strategies, we will cut our calories between 100-200 a day, an amount that Wansik argues it the best for losing weight while keeping our metabolism active. He also devotes time to "Diet Danger Zones," so that we can see the warning signs of destructive eating habits and bad eating environments. While he does debunk most diet books, he makes an exception with The Volumetrics Eating Plan by Dr. Barbara Rolls.
Most researchers seem to tend toward the dry and ominous. Not here! This book is an engaging read that's full of fascinating information about food and psychology. This is one of those books where you say "Of course! That explains it!"
Each chapter covers actual studies of different aspects of eating behaviors and attitudes. At the end of each chapter are real-world strategies anyone can easily and immediately apply to what they've read. (My only quibble is that many studies center around college students, and I'd like to see more stratification among broad age groups.)
At the beginning, I wasn't very surprised with the ideas in this book. Everyone knows a smaller plate means you eat less. But it is so much more than that. It had the feel of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point with innumerable studies to explain our relationship with food. After reading Mindless Eating I understand why Doritos just introduced "two-flavor" bags of chips. My high school children really enjoyed listening to the studies and we've been applying them in the kitchen. It turned out to be the best non-diet (but lose weight) book I've read.
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The Sydney Morning Herald..., Monday 9 August 1954 p 8 ... our eating and drinking habits tells why. ' JT is just as hard for a * fat person to stay on a diet, ... treatment of eating and drinking habits. At first it seems strange that alcoholism and obesity should ... obesity result from , powerful cravings to eat and , drink excessively. Moreover, the treatment of ... 1757 words
The Argus (Melbourne,..., Saturday 16 June 1945 Supplement: The Argus Weekend Magazine p 11 ... it has become evident that only the crudest aspects of foodhabits, such as hunger and indigestion, ... The Analysis of FoodHabits-a New Science Also Notes on Cardus' "Ten Composers" And Mann's ... shows the comparative effects of physiological fatigue. OTHER FACTORS IN FOODHABITS are the effects ... 2062 words
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The Sydney Morning Herald..., Thursday 6 February 1947 p 9 ... surveys connected with food consumption, hous- ing, health, family fertility, and other aspects ... psychological data. Already, for example, by comparing the re- sults of polls we find that most of the ... programme. To-day about 30 British cities are collecting similar data. From the sociological aspect ... 1031 words