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Write 6 pages with APA style on Mindless Eating Why we Eat more than we Think. We fight against perceived “good” and “bad” foods, rather than focusing on the psychology of how and why we eat (Wansick)

Write 6 pages with APA style on Mindless Eating Why we Eat more than we Think. We fight against perceived “good” and “bad” foods, rather than focusing on the psychology of how and why we eat (Wansick). Society would be well served to heed Professor Wansick’s advice and change its focus from calories and fats to a more psychological approach to how and why the body craves food and how our minds and habit play into what, when, why, and how we eat.

I have been on diets and similar plans before, and like most, found them to be limiting. I soon found myself craving the very foods I was depriving myself. I knew it had to do with deprivation and the body craving what it cannot have, but did not know the amount of psychological effort went into eating foods, regardless if one was on a diet or not. What surprised me most when reading this book (besides all the interesting information on how much our brains and subjective perceptions of what we eat influence how much and what we eat), was that we make about 250 decisions a day on what we eat. (Wansink, 23) That seems like a lot of time and energy to be used to simply eat lunch, but it is important for society to realize that eating is as much a psychological exercise, as much as it is a sensual exercise, built around satisfying primal urges for fuel for the human engine.

Simply be “fooling the brain,” if you will, most people can cut down on the food they eat within a 100-to-200 calorie range per day, without even noticing it! It was surprising that we can best lose weight not be deprivation, but by doing simple math! Professor Wansink asserts that we should not deprive the body of the food we love, but simply eat almost imperceptively smaller helpings of the foods we love, or changing the content of similar foods (ie. by substituting a turkey burger for a beef burger-- or even better-- a bison burger for a beef burger), we save calories over the course of a year that leads to small weight loss, which adds up over time.&nbsp.

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