Mindless Eating

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DID YOU EVER EAT

the last bit of hard, dried-out chocolate cake even

despite the fact that it suggested a flavor like chocolate-scented cardboard? Ever wrap up a sack of

french fries despite the fact that they were cool, limp, and saturated? It damages to reply

questions like these.

For what reason do we indulge food that doesn’t taste great?

We indulge in light of the fact that there are signals and prompts around us that advise us to eat. It’s

just not in our temperament to stop after each chomp and think about whether we’re

full. As we eat, we accidentally—thoughtlessly—search for signs or prompts that

we’ve had enough. For example, if there’s nothing staying on the table, that is

a prompt that it’s an ideal opportunity to stop. In the event that every other person has left the table, killed the

lights, and we’re sitting alone in obscurity, that is another signal. For a considerable lot of us, as

long as there are as yet a couple of milk-drenched Froot Loops left in the base of the

oat bowl, there is still work to be finished. It doesn’t make a difference in case we’re full, and it

doesn’t make a difference in the event that we don’t even truly like Froot Loops. We eat as though it is our

crucial completion.

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Stale Popcorn and Frail Willpower

Take film popcorn, for example.