
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat



Scientists and authors like Brian Wansink and Michael Pollan have pointed out how our hungers are learned.1 Of course, that we get hungry—that we need to eat—is a structural feature of human biology. But the “direction” our hunger takes—what we hunger for—is, in important ways, learned. So it’s not just that you are what you eat; you are what you w
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