Skinny Habits: The 6 Secrets of Thin People (Skinny Rules) by Bob Harper & Greg Critser

Author:Bob Harper & Greg Critser [Harper, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780804178907
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-27T22:00:00+00:00

YOUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Take a minute to think about how often you have to make a decision about food on a given day. It’s not just at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but all the hours in between: what to put in your shopping cart for this week’s meals; tall, grande, or venti at the coffee shop; what time to meet your mom for brunch, where to sit when you get there, and what you’ll order off the menu. But that’s just the obvious stuff! Would you believe that on average, you make 250 food-related decisions every day? It’s true! Though you might not be aware of it, you never really stop having to think about what to put in your mouth and how you’ll do it (volume, speed, heat, spice…so many decisions!).

Unfortunately, your physical surroundings—both the big, structural things (macro surroundings) and the small details (micro surroundings)—undercut Skinny Habits and healthy decisions in very subtle ways all the time. Part of the reason for this is that your built environment is often built by people and companies that want to sway you one way or another! Supermarket managers, food manufacturers, restaurant designers, refrigeration experts, and even lighting technicians have all influenced the food-related decisions you’ve made today. And will make tomorrow. Maybe you’ve heard about the standard supermarket practice of putting common household items all the way at the back of the store so that you have to walk by lots of tempting and more expensive items to get your milk. That’s a good example of the forces at hand to influence your built environment (their motivation is to make you stay longer in the store and spend more money, but it often leads to more crap food in your cart), but it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the attempts to influence you are out of range of your day-to-day radar. But I’m here to enlighten you and improve that radar!

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