I just finished Brian Wansink's book, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. I'd been hearing about his work for years. He's the food researcher who does experiments comparing how much people eat with different serving sizes, different background stimuli, and different kind of feedback telling them how much they've eaten.
According to Wansink, nobody--not even food researchers--are immune to these cues that affect how much we eat, though nearly everyone thinks they are. Reading this has definitely gotten me to pay more attention, trying to put less on my plate and resisting the urge to help myself to seconds.
But I have to say, reading a book about snacking definitely got me thinking quite a bit about...well...snacking.
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