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...didn’t just do it willy-nilly, but because people weren’t eating?? the items, Mayer said...
...first identified by Dr. Steven Bratman in 1997. HUDS is rightly concerned with this emerging eating disorder, but there are better methods of treatment than the short-term solution of stuffing the nutritional cards in a drawer. They should design programs that celebrate food, that foster positive attitudes toward eating??more cooking classes, food tastings, and apple-picking field trips. So yes, in an ideal world, we’d all follow the ancient Okinawan practice and stop eating when we’re 80% full. But personally, I don’t know what 80% full feels...
...approach to books as yet another product to be marketed has its downside. In some ways, “Mindless Eating?? is intellectual instant gratification, the literary equivalent to delicious but airy cotton candy. Though Wansink explores the possible implications of the studies for weight loss strategies, he never considers any of the greater implications...
...What does it mean that people are so extremely suggestible and malleable to outside influence? Or, perhaps more pertinently, what about the brands and companies that are using studies like those discussed in “Mindless Eating?? to further their own aims? Such questions are pushed aside by the more accessible “Power of Three Checklist” and quizzes showing soup-personality correlations. Wansink never makes any pretensions to discussing the greater ideas and problems suggested by the research, but by the end of the book you wish...
...diet book, “Mindless Eating?? is exceptional—both readable and sensible. But as a book explaining scientific studies to the public, it is belied by its packaging...