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Books to Check Out: November 2014
To submit a new book, email [email protected]. A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication by Richard Jackson Harris and Fred W. Sanborn; Taylor & Francis, 2014. Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the New Science of Adolescence
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Brain Activity Provides Evidence for Internal “Calorie Counter”
As you glance over a menu or peruse the shelves in a supermarket, you may be thinking about how each food will taste and whether it’s nutritious, or you may be trying to decide what
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Your Fellow Diners’ Size May Affect How Much You Eat
NPR: Your dining companion may have more influence over your eating habits than you realize. We’ve known that people often have friends with similar body weights, but new research suggests that dining with an overweight companion may
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The joys of grazing
The Guardian: “The commonest thing is delightful, if only one hides it,” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Perhaps this is why illicit fridge grazing – that slice of ham folded swiftly
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A School Lunch Tray Redesign to Trick Kids Into Making Healthy Choices
Slate: In his new book Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab Brian Wansink argues that 25 years of research have convinced him that “becoming slim by design works
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Children capable of learning to control junk food cravings: study
NY Daily News: For children, the lure of cookies and fast food is distinctly more powerful than for adolescents and adults, although children’s cognitive wiring is well suited to train such cravings, according to researchers
