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Mindless Eating

Written by: Brian Wansink Ph.D.
Narrated by: Brian Wansink Ph.D.
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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 our dietary habits.

  • How does packaging influence how much we eat?
  • Which movies make us eat faster?
  • How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat?
  • How can we recognize the "hidden persuaders" used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat?
  • What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail?
  • And how can we use the "mindless margin" to lose instead of gain 10 to 20 pounds in the coming year?

Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office, and even at a vending machine -- wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.

©2006 Brian Wansink (P)2006 Random House, Inc.

What the critics say

"Wansink's dual approach emphasizing food knowledge and self-knowledge offers a sensible route to permanent weight loss." (Booklist)

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  • 2019-11-02

Excellent book! Highly recommend.

This book advocates making minuscule changes over time to help you gradually lose weight and improve your health. It provides many evidence based mind hacks to achieve these changes. And it was interesting to listen to! I highly recommend this book to anyone who struggles with their weight and who wants to make long term changes. I also recommend listening to this book in conjunction with Atomic Habits by James Clear. Two life changing books for me that I will definitely listen to again!

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great book

great book. full of really interesting info. a must read for anyone who wants to be more healthy
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