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Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
The solution is to create your own personal environment, one that insulates you from those obesity triggers that your genes are looking for.
Andrew Jenkinson • Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite
Campbell’s Soup which said “Limit of 12 per person.” The other group was confronted with a display sign which read “No Limit per Person.” Shoppers in the first group bought seven cans on average, and the shoppers in the latter group only half as many. At play here is not only an anchor effect—the sign suggests that buying 12 cans is normal—but also
... See moreHermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
individual level differences
Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook
The problem is not that people today are inactive; the problem is that calories are so readily available to be consumed. Diners judge the value of their meals by the size of the portions they are given, and when people go out to eat, they want to leave feeling full. On this point, studies have shown that there is a difference of roughly 1,000
... See moreDoug McGuff • Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
Dreze note that the decline in calorie consumption over the last quarter century could be entirely explained by a modest decrease in the number of people engaged in physically heavy work for a large part of the day.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
To be blunt, the rich can afford to buy food that is both rewarding and expensive, whereas the poor can afford only rewarding food that is cheaper.