Imagine you're at home and your stomach starts to grumble.

You wander into the kitchen looking for a snack.

If you've got a bowl of candy on the counter or a bag of chips, that's probably what you're

going to go for.

But what if I told you, making a small tweak to where you keep your food might entirely

change your snacking habits?

My family tried this out in a little experiment.

My wife and I put all the junk food, all the chips, the candy, the sodas, in the hardest

to reach places in our kitchen, on the highest shelves and at the very back of the cupboard.

And we took our healthiest snacks and we put them in the most visible places.

There was a big bowl of fresh fruit on the counter, a picture of unsweetened iced tea on

the kitchen table, and baby carrots and hummus at eye level in the fridge.

Sure enough, for all of us, me, my wife, and my three daughters, this changed our behavior.

We still had the option to go for the junk food, but when we walked into the kitchen feeling

peckish, more often than not, we reached for what was immediately available and we made

the healthier choice.

I really felt like we had cracked a major code, a major life hack as they say.

Now some of this may sound very familiar to you, and as it turns out, there's a lot

of behavioral science behind why this kind of tweak is so effective.

There's even a whole field of research now devoted to the idea.

It's called Nudge Theory, and it's all about understanding the invisible forces that

steer our decision making.

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