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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–ten to twenty 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–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Good read September 30, 2008
Brian Wansink has some wonderful research to share in the book. It's a great resource for nutritionists and those with a desire to eat healthier alike.

5 out of 5 stars

thought provoking and effective August 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought this book, along with The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!, about two years ago. When I went for my last physical, I discovered that I had lost 28 pounds over the course of those two years. I have not been "on a diet," or denying myself things I really wanted to eat.

I credit Mindless Eating with helping me reevaluate how I choose what to eat, and how I present it to myself (portion sizes, etc)... I credit The Rules of "Normal" Eating with helping me tune into my body's needs.

It may be that I was just ready to eat more sensibly, but these two books will put you on the path if you're able to really hear what the authors are saying: don't "diet," make sure you don't feel deprived, make sure you're not eating for any reason other than hunger or active pleasure, and don't make any changes in your diet or exercise plan if you're thinking of them as temporary fixes.

4 out of 5 stars

This is eye opening!! August 18, 2008
This opened my eyes to the way our food suppliers process and package food to get into our stomachs. I hope to apply some of the psychology I learned from this book into my food buying habits. I'd also like to pass this on to my children so they can be informed and sensible comsumers.

5 out of 5 stars

Don't eat with your eyes July 31, 2008
We eat for a variety of reasons other than hunger, and many of them are fattening.
If you're trying to lose weight, you will be encouraged to learn that it is easier and therefore much more effective to change your environment than your mind. Wansink details experiments that illustrate the environmental cues that unobtrusively influence how much we eat.
This information is far more valuable than calories and portions and carb/protein ratios.

5 out of 5 stars

fun reading July 18, 2008
Fun reading. I hope it helps me control my snacking. The concepts are not new but are well explained and substantiated.

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