Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

Цена 10.20 - 24.81 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780553384482

Автор

Издатель Bantam

Страниц 304

Год выпуска 2007

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you"re eating, what you"re eating - or why you"re even eating at all. Does food with a brand name really taste better? Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did? Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel? How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly refilled itself? What does your favorite comfort food really say about you? Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants? Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He"s spent a lifetime studying what we don"t notice: the hidden cues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the "bottomless soup bowl," Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind...