Mindless Eating

Why We Eat More Than We Think

De: Brian Wansink PhD

Narrado por: Marc Cashman

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.©2006 Brian Wansink; (P)2006 Books on Tape

Reseñas de la Crítica

“[Mindless Eating] does more than just chastise those of us guilty of stuffing our faces. It also examines the effectiveness of such popular diets as South Beach or Atkins, and offers useful tips to consciously eat nutritiously.”—Boston Herald

"Entertaining... Isn't so much a diet book as a how-to on better facilitating the interaction between the feed-me messages of our stomachs and the controls in our heads."—Publishers Weekly

Best nutrition book I’ve ever read

This book is the most science back helpful nutrition book I’ve ever read. This man spent decades researching food psychology and has provided countless insights that are proven to help you succeed beyond the stupid fat diet the other books recommend that don’t work

Facinating and practical

What did you like best about this story?

The book was logically written, easy to follow, and full of great advice that can easily be put into place to make immediate changes in your life. I felt quite inspired.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It is an easy listen, that kept up it's pace, and was packed full of info. Good read.

Great practical steps to gradually lose weight

Doesnt make big promises about results byt gives a very reasoned (and scientifically researched) basis. More importantly it gives an explanation of what really drives our behaviour which I consider to be useful even beyond weight loss

Enlightening

Good source of information, and easily applicable rules. Good reading pace and application of exemples.

Repeative info

Book is ok and has some interesting moments. However, it can get really repetitive as u listen to the book.