Fwd: Review-a-Day: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

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These are my 2 favorite paragraphs from the following review. Maybe

soybeans need a new name -- Asian beans? (rapeseed was renamed

" canola " for marketing purposes).

 

 

>It is healthy to eat soy, and you can lose weight by selecting

>soy products, but efforts to market those products have fared

>pretty badly. Why? A big reason is that people have a bad association

>with the word " soy. " In one of Wansink's experiments, a number

>of people were asked to eat a new PowerBar, prominently labeled

>with the words " Contains 10 grams of protein. " Other people, not

>different from the first group, were asked to eat the same PowerBar,

>prominently labeled with the words " Contains 10 grams of soy protein. "

>Members of the first group liked what they ate; they described

>it as chewy, tasty, and chocolaty. Members of the second group

>were not so pleased. Many spat out the bar. Many others asked,

>after the first bite, if they could have a drink of water. Those

>who knew that they had eaten " soy protein " said that the bars

>had a bad aftertaste and " didn't even taste like chocolate. "

>

>Wansink's lesson is that " we taste what we expect we'll taste. "

>To support this claim, he notes that in the dark, people are willing

>to believe that chocolate yogurt is strawberry yogurt -- and apparently

>to enjoy it just as if it were strawberry. A military chef found

>himself with a group of sailors who were tired of eating lemon

>Jell-O and insisted on getting their favorite flavor, which was

>cherry. Not having any such Jell-O, he colored lemon-flavored

>Jell-O red -- and the sailors ate it happily. Indeed, even many

>wine connoisseurs cannot tell the difference between red and white

>wine when the wine is served in dark, opaque stemware.

 

 

 

>Today's Review From

>The New Republic Online

>

>Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

>by Brian Wansink

>

>Read the review online at:

>http://www.powells.com/tnr/review/2007_03_22

>

>

>The Survival of the Fattest

> A review by Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler

>

[Guest guest]

FREEDOM BEANS

hahahahahahahahahaha

 

 

>yarrow

>Mar 22, 2007 10:18 AM

>

> Fwd: Review-a-Day: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than

We Think

>

>These are my 2 favorite paragraphs from the following review. Maybe

>soybeans need a new name -- Asian beans? (rapeseed was renamed

> " canola " for marketing purposes).

>

>

>>It is healthy to eat soy, and you can lose weight by selecting

>>soy products, but efforts to market those products have fared

>>pretty badly. Why? A big reason is that people have a bad association

>>with the word " soy. " In one of Wansink's experiments, a number

>>of people were asked to eat a new PowerBar, prominently labeled

>>with the words " Contains 10 grams of protein. " Other people, not

>>different from the first group, were asked to eat the same PowerBar,

>>prominently labeled with the words " Contains 10 grams of soy protein. "

>>Members of the first group liked what they ate; they described

>>it as chewy, tasty, and chocolaty. Members of the second group

>>were not so pleased. Many spat out the bar. Many others asked,

>>after the first bite, if they could have a drink of water. Those

>>who knew that they had eaten " soy protein " said that the bars

>>had a bad aftertaste and " didn't even taste like chocolate. "

>>

>>Wansink's lesson is that " we taste what we expect we'll taste. "

>>To support this claim, he notes that in the dark, people are willing

>>to believe that chocolate yogurt is strawberry yogurt -- and apparently

>>to enjoy it just as if it were strawberry. A military chef found

>>himself with a group of sailors who were tired of eating lemon

>>Jell-O and insisted on getting their favorite flavor, which was

>>cherry. Not having any such Jell-O, he colored lemon-flavored

>>Jell-O red -- and the sailors ate it happily. Indeed, even many

>>wine connoisseurs cannot tell the difference between red and white

>>wine when the wine is served in dark, opaque stemware.

>

>

>

>>Today's Review From

>>The New Republic Online

>>

>>Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

>>by Brian Wansink

>>

>>Read the review online at:

>>http://www.powells.com/tnr/review/2007_03_22

>>

>>

>>The Survival of the Fattest

>> A review by Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler

>>

>

>

>

>To send an email to -

>

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or Decider beans

 

(as in, " I'm the Decider. " )

 

>FREEDOM BEANS

>hahahahahahahahahaha

>

>

>>yarrow

>> Fwd: Review-a-Day: Mindless Eating: Why We

>>Eat More Than We Think

>>

>>These are my 2 favorite paragraphs from the following review. Maybe

>>soybeans need a new name -- Asian beans? (rapeseed was renamed

>> " canola " for marketing purposes).

[Guest guest]

or prosperity peas

liberty beans

lotto pods...

*rofl*

 

>fraggle <EBbrewpunx

>Mar 22, 2007 11:01 AM

>

>Re: Fwd: Review-a-Day: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More

Than We Think

>

>FREEDOM BEANS

>hahahahahahahahahaha

>

>

>>yarrow

>>Mar 22, 2007 10:18 AM

>>

>> Fwd: Review-a-Day: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than

We Think

>>

>>These are my 2 favorite paragraphs from the following review. Maybe

>>soybeans need a new name -- Asian beans? (rapeseed was renamed

>> " canola " for marketing purposes).

>>

>>

 

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to

tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been

enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money

power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the

prejudices of the people until all the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and

the republic is destroyed. I feel, at this moment, more anxiety for the safety

of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my

suspicions may prove groundless. " Lincoln in a letter to Col. William F. Elkins

on November 21, 1864