Brian Wansink’s research into why people overeat isn’t just good science, it’s funny. So Mr. F and I weren’t surprised to find ourselves laughing a great deal during his lecture tonight at Cal Poly. Running into several of my students after the lecture, I found that we weren’t the only Read more…
As I was reading through my Sunday Parade Magazine, my attention was caught by an ad for spring cleaning products from Wal-Mart. Normally, I have a well-trained eye that skips all advertising, internet or otherwise, so what accounted for my stopping to look at this one? The ad featured a Read more…
I first became aware of Brian Wansink’s work on “mindless eating” during a presentation by my students in Sensation/Perception. The students reviewed one of Brian’s studies that showed how people are likely to eat more popcorn if it’s served in one of those enormous buckets you see at the movies. Read more…
One of the strategies we’ve used here chez Freberg to maintain our weight loss is to really limit the number of times we eat in restaurants. It seems virtually impossible to find a restaurant that knows what a steamed veggy is, or where portions aren’t huge (a big downfall for Read more…
The media reported with great fanfare this week that it really doesn’t matter what type of diet you go on–low fat, low carbs, grapefruit, whatever–the key factor is calories in, calories out. The most recent iteration of this finding is a study by Sacks et al. in the New England Read more…