Will a basket or a cart determine how healthy your grocery choices are?
From Joe: When you are shopping to eat healthy, does how you hold your items make a difference in the kinds of items you select?
Consumer Reports reporter Maggie Shader would answer “Yes!”
She cites a study which found that carrying your items in a basket leads you to make unwise choices. Carrying items in a basket …
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Thinking about sweets might actually help you eat less of them.
From Joe: Writing about Treats without Calories, Henry Alford asks us to imagine if imagining ourselves overeating some snacks can help us lose pounds:
I’m what any right-thinking nutritionist would call average size. But note that the number 165 is rendered in heterosexual pounds. In gay pounds, I’m Precious. So when I hit 170 this winter, I knew it was time to test-drive a Carnegie Mellon study I’d read about. Scientists there discovered that when you repeatedly imagine eating a certain food, your craving for that food (but not others) is reduced.