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The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

FFF 047: Slim By Design, Is Your Home & Office Making You Fat? – with Prof Brian Wansink

The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

Scott Baptie

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8631 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dr Brian Wansink is a leading behavioural economist, food psychologist, bestselling author and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University.

On this episode of the Food For Fitness Podcast, Brian shares some unique insights from his latest book – Slim By Design – that will make it easy for you to eat healthier-without even noticing that you’re making changes! Brian explains that the easiest, quickest, and most natural way to reverse weight gain is to work with human nature, not against it.

He believes the best way to lose weight isn't to tell people what to do; it's to change their living environments so it becomes mindlessly easy for people to eat healthier.

In this episode, Brian shares some incredibly insightful findings from his lab. For example, did you know that serving your food from the stove away from the dining table will prompt you to eat 19% less food! Or that a person who has breakfast cereal sitting on the worktop on average weighs 21 pounds more than their neighbour who doesn’t? Or that a messy kitchen causes you to snack 44% more often!

It doesn’t get better at work either, Brian explains that people who have snacks in or on the desk reported weighing 15.4 pounds more than those who didn’t. This is an incredibly interesting podcast episode that will make a huge difference to how you set up your home and workplace to help you lose weight! .

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0:00.0

Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?

0:04.5

Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice

0:09.5

based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better.

0:15.4

You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.

0:19.1

We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact.

0:22.6

Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast.

0:27.6

Welcome to another episode of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by

0:38.4

Food for Fitness.co.com. UK. I'm your host, Scott Bapti, and I am delighted to introduce

0:44.8

Dr. Brian Wancink on this week's podcast. Now, I am a huge fan of Brian's work, and his first

0:52.1

book, Mindless Eating, is one of my favorites and I recommend it to a lot of my

0:55.8

clients. So I was delighted that he agreed to come on and chat about his newest book called Slim

1:00.8

by Design. Now, Brian is a leading behavioral economist, food psychologist and bestselling author.

1:07.6

Now, his approach is that rather than telling people what to eat, he says we should

1:12.2

change your living environments so it becomes super easy to lose weight without even thinking

1:17.4

about it. Now, Brian has done some incredible work at his lab in Cornell University and the book

1:25.1

and what we talk about in this episode is there's just some really interesting statistics.

1:30.3

Like, did you know that someone who has breakfast cereal sitting on the worktop weighs on average

1:34.8

£21 more than the neighbour who doesn't?

1:37.7

Or that a messy kitchen can cause you to snack 44% more often.

1:41.7

And we talk about the work environment too and how you have snacks on their desks

1:46.6

away on average 15 pounds more than people who don't. So this episode will be looking at the

1:51.4

different environments that Brian talks about in his book. We'll be talking about how you can set up

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