Show 951: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Does your mood affect how much you eat? While serious depression or anxiety are known to change appetite, even milder changes in mood can have surprising effects. You might be surprised to learn that food rituals, such as saying grace, can also alter our eating behavior. Expressing gratitude before starting a meal helps people moderate their intake and makes the dinner conversation more pleasant as well.
Why We Eat More Than We Imagine:
Studying the impact of environmental cues on how much we eat shows us how we could change some of those factors to achieve healthier eating patterns. How could choosing low-fat snacks get you into trouble? How do you know when you are done with dinner? Learn about tricks you can use to stop eating-even if the table (or your plate) still has food on it. Using this research, we could all help ourselves eat better and become slimmer and healthier.
This Week’s Guest:
Brian Wansink, PhD, is the John S. Dyson professor of applied economics at Cornell University and Director of the famous Cornell Food and Brand lab. He is author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. His most recent book is Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life. His websites are: http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/
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| 0:40.5 | Have you ever tried to lose weight by dieting only to end up back where you started? |
| 0:45.9 | Could the best diet be the one you don't know you're on? |
| 0:49.4 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:59.6 | Thank you. The People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. We make a surprising number of food decisions every day. |
| 1:03.5 | Eggs or cereal for breakfast, sandwich or salad for lunch, |
| 1:07.1 | yummy dessert or apple slices at dinner. |
| 1:10.0 | How does the table setting, the lighting, and our mood affect what we put in our mouth? |
| 1:14.7 | Dr. Brian Wansink is the Sherlock Holmes of Food. |
| 1:18.6 | He's been studying eating behavior for years and has some simple tricks to help us overcome mindless eating. |
| 1:25.7 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out why we eat more than we think and what to do about |
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