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How Grocery Stores, Restaurants, Your Office And Even Your Kitchen Trick You Into Eating More
The Huffington Post: Chew on this: When it comes to eating healthfully, our environments may be working against us. Not always on purpose. But simple elements — from the color paint in our kitchens to the
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Can we wire children’s brains to not crave junk food?
PBS: A study published in Psychological Science says it is possible to train children’s brains to resist craving junk food. The cognitive strategy was developed by researchers at Columbia University, who took MRI brain scans of
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Why Food Pilgrims Will Wait Four Hours For A Taste Of The Sublime
NPR: During a trip to Austin, Texas, last year, Sarah Grieco and her friends stood in line for two hours to taste the famously delicious smoked meat at La Barbecue. Before that, Grieco, 25, says she
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Do We Have an Internal Calorie Counter?
Many explanations have been offered for the country’s obesity epidemic, and one is nutritional ignorance. People simply don’t know what a calorie is, so how can they be expected to know a calorie-rich food when
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Food Craving Is Stronger, but Controllable, for Kids
Children show stronger food craving than adolescents and adults, but they are also able to use a cognitive strategy that reduces craving, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
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The Science Of Menu Design: How Restaurants Can Make You Choose A Salad Over A Cheeseburger
Fast Company: Responding to the rise of American obesity rates, some politicians have proposed regulations that would require restaurateurs to reduce portion sizes, eliminate drive-thrus, and limit soft drink sizes. Brian Wansink, author of Slim By Design
