070 What Should I Eat?

Do you ever feel indecisive about choosing what to eat? Yesterday for lunch my wife and I did. Then I had a thought. “I’ll make the rice” I volunteered, trusting later we’d figure on other delicious additives. We did and she did! When I paused from the work task I was completing to check theContinue reading “070 What Should I Eat?”

069 Make A Simple, Small Change

Authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath write, “Two health researchers, Steve Booth-Butterfield and Bill Reger, professors at West Virginia University, were contemplating ways to persuade people to eat a healthier diet . . . “As the two researchers brainstormed, their thoughts kept coming back to milk. Most Americans drink milk, and we all know thatContinue reading “069 Make A Simple, Small Change”

068 Eat Less by Changing the Size of Your Bowl

Did you know there’s a simple way to change how much you eat? Simply change the size of the plate, bowl, and/or cup you use. In their book Switch authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath describe an experiment testing whether “people with bigger buckets [of popcorn would] eat more”. Two groups of participants were givenContinue reading “068 Eat Less by Changing the Size of Your Bowl”