Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life - Softcover

Wansink PhD, Brian

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9781781807415: Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life

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ISBN 10: 1781807418 ISBN 13: 9781781807415

Publisher: Hay House UK, 2016

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In this paradigm-shattering book, leading food psychologist Brian Wansink PhD offers a radical new philosophy for weight loss. The trick isn't changing what we eat, but the environment we eat in. Through his extensive, cutting-edge research, Brian found that we are increasingly starting to arrange our homes to make unhealthy, comforting foods easier to reach and consume., Meanwhile, the same thing has been happening all around us. Restaurants have made it more tempting to order richer meals. Supermarkets have made it more economical to buy packaged and processed foods., Workplaces have made it habitual to eat on the go or at our desks. School lunchrooms have made it acceptable to pile large portions onto a tray. This has all helped to make us 'fat by design'., This entertaining, eye-opening book shows how you can adapt and redesign your most common spaces in innovative and inexpensive ways to start losing weight naturally. It offers simple and practical solutions for eating healthily in the long term without any dieting or frustrating restrictions. And it shows how you can still have your favourite foods while making yourselves, your family and even your community effortlessly slim and healthy - by design.

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Slim by Design is crammed with ideas to make it easy to eat healthier - without even noticing that you're making changes. The book is fascinating, and surprisingly lively and funny - this isn't a dry review of the literature. It's a fun read. --Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

Professor Wansink's Slim By Design theory is about changing your eating environment to lose weight. --The Daily Mail

Slim By Design provides tons of practical and useful tips to help you and your family seamlessly improve your eating habits and make better food choices. --Parents.com

From the Back Cover:

The Future Is Slim by Design!

In this paradigm-shattering book, leading behavioral economist and food psychologist Brian Wansink--dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of food" and the "wizard of why"--offers a radical new philosophy for weight loss. The answer isn't to tell people what to do; it's to set up their living environments so that they will naturally lose weight. Using cutting-edge, never-before-seen research from his acclaimed Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, Wansink reveals how innovative and inexpensive design changes--from home kitchens to restaurants, from grocery stores to schools and workplaces--can make it mindlessly easy for people to eat healthier and make it more profitable for the companies who sell the food).

In Slim by Design, Wansink argues that the easiest, quickest, and most natural way to reverse weight gain is to work with human nature, not against it. He demonstrates how schools can nudge kids to take an apple instead of a cookie, how restaurants can increase profits by selling half-size portions, how supermarkets can double the amount of fruits and vegetables they sell, and how anyone can cut plate refills at home by more than a third. Interweaving drawings, charts, floor plans, and scorecards with new scientific studies and compelling insights that will make you view your surroundings in an entirely fresh way, this entertaining, eye-opening book offers practical solutions for changing your everyday environment to make you, your family, and even your community slim by design.

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