How we eat with our eyes and think with our stomach the hidden influences that shape your eating habits
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New York, NY :
The Experiment, LLC,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. How you eat with your eyes
- The color of flavor: is there such a thing as blind faith at the dinner table?
- A plate of art: how much does it cost to eat with your eyes?
- Dish decisions: how does plating affect your appetite?
- All you can see: how do you control how much you eat at the buffet?
- Supermarket schemes: why do you always fail to stick to the shopping list?
- Celebrity advice fairy tales: what qualifies celebrities to give health advice--and why do you listen?
- Part II. How you diet with your brain
- The raw food fallacy: how does cooking make you smart?
- Gluten anxiety: why do you keep falling for food myths?
- Carb phobia: how do carbohydrates help you survive?
- "Lose ten pounds fast!": you've tried every diet--why don't any of them work?
- Enough is enough: why don't you know when you're full?
- Love, the anti-diet: is your partner making you fat?
- The doggie bag paradox: why should you think twice before taking your leftovers home?
- Part III. How you savor with your ears
- Music to your...stomach: how does the sizzle make you salivate?
- Smack-and-slurp phobia: how can you tell if you're a misophonic?
- The flavor of music: what soundtrack should you play at your next dinner party?
- The perfect chip: how do you hear what you eat?
- The "unhealthy = tasty intuition": why does junk food sound so good?
- Status anxiety a` la carte: why is the language of menus full of red herrings?
- Part IV. How you think with your stomach
- "How can you eat that?": why do some delicacies delight and others disgust you?
- The marketing-placebo effect: why is there no veritas in vino?
- The priming effect: why doesn't Ha¨agen-Dazs ice cream come from Denmark?
- The health-halo effect: what do you think of as "healthy"--and what actually is?
- The Romeo-and-Juliet effect: why does absence make your cravings stronger?
- Sleep yourself slim: how does what you eat affect how you sleep?
- The feeding clock: how can eating help you beat jet lag?
- Part V. How you feast with your feelings
- "I'll have what you're having": why do you order what you order at restaurants?
- Nudging: how do you choose what to eat in a cafeteria?
- The food radius: how can you shape your food environment--and how does it shape you?
- The trophy kitchen syndrome: why doesn't renovating your kitchen always make you happy?
- Working lunch: for business, for pleasure, or for health?
- Fast manners: how did handling fast food get so out of hand?
- Stress-free slurping: why is drinking a milkshake so calming?
- The comfort food effect: why do you crave junk food when you're sad?
- Part VI. How you choose with your tongue
- Supertasters: do children who will eat only pasta have supertasting powers?
- Some like it hot: what does a fondness for spicy foods reveal about your character?
- Conditions of taste: are your favorite foods innate or selected through memory?
- Mind over meat: why do cats sit on your lap and cows on your plate?
- Hooray for haptics: how do you experience the pleasure of taste through touch?
- Taste the aroma: how do you taste what you smell?
- Chew on this: why should you treat forks with caution?
- The pineapple fallacy: why do you like what you like?
