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Front Load Your First Mouthful
There’s a reason the first bite of a chocolate bar tastes better than subsequent bites; the first bite is novel, then our taste buds become habituated. Even when the flavour of each bite or slurp is slightly different, if it looks the same our brain tends to assume that the taste also remains the same. The flipside of that is that we can use this reaction to our advantage and reduce the quantity of unhealthy food we consume by packing as much of it as possible into that first mouthful. This is harder to do at home but it is coming into play in the design of readymade foods.
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How We Eat Matters
The choices we make before and during eating food, and the ways in which we engage with it can be crucial to our health.
What our meals look and smell like, whether we eat them with forks or fingers – even the music we’re listening to while eating or food shopping can all play a role in how...
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Make Eating as Sensory an Experience as Possible
Anything you can do to pay more attention and eat more slowly, to be more mindful in the moment, will likely enhance the sensations associated with eating and mean that you are satisfied with less.
Not only will this affect satiety, it could also help you make healthier choices – and enjoy...
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Choose Your Music Carefully – and Turn Down the Volume
People will drink about 30% more if the music is fast and loud. There is emerging evidence to suggest loud noises trigger less healthy food behaviours which might be because there’s so much noise, you can’t really taste what you’re eating.
Genre matters too: listening to jazz and classical...
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Cook – and Eat – with Your Eyes
We eat first with our eyes, and that dictates much of our experience. Indeed, by shaping our expectations, the appearance of foods has even been shown to influence what we taste when we eat them; so a big, beautiful salad boasting a variety of leaves and colours and textures won’t just look bette...
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Make Shared Meals as Engaging and Memorable as Possible
It is true that we tend to eat more in the company of others but one doesn’t want to recommend eating alone at least, not habitually. There are ways to enhance the sensory experience of a communal meal and encourage diners to focus on the food as well as the conversation. One is to get people inv...
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Use Heavier Cutlery or – Better Still – No Cutlery at All
Many of us now know that serving meals on a smaller plate can control how much we eat, because our brains believe there to be more food there than there actually is. This has a profound effect on satiety (how full you feel), yet the brain can also be fooled by the tools we use: heavier cutlery en...
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Ditching the cutlery, scoffing a big first bite and discussing the carrots can help rewire our brains and make us more mindful of our meals
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How To Eat Mindfully
A piece of chocolate, eaten mindfully:
- Select the piece of chocolate keeping in mind your craving.
- Set aside any guilt or distractions and be fully present, sitting down to savour the experience.
- Unwrap the chocolate paying attention to the aroma and the sound.
Examples of Hedonic Adaptation
- People who win the lottery are likely to revert to their original levels of happiness after the novelty of the win has worn off.
- It is also true for those who are in major accidents. People generally tend to return to their pre-accident levels of happiness after a period.
3. Front-load your week
When planning ahead, put the bigger, harder, more pressing tasks at the start of the week (or day), so you can knock them out first and relax more as the week goes on. Set yourself up for success by front-loading your week.
This is kind of a version of Eat That Frog , a productivity ...
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