and why they do not. How do we persuade a person to eat what we regard as good, and avoid what we regard as harmful? No amount of heavyweight basic science in nutrition can avoid the fact that ...

[3] Why do we keep choosing foods that we shouldn’t? There are a variety of reasons people choose to eat what they eat that depend on the individual, their circumstances, and other factors.

Research links boredom with eating for escapism, but there’s good news: it also associates it with increased consumption of healthy food, so long the food is “exciting”. When we’re sleep ...

(It’s also fun.) So here’s why we eat pork and sauerkraut as well as other good-luck foods. Like many other cultures, the Pennsylvania Dutch believe eating pork on New Year’s Day brings good ...

“Distracted eating,” as it’s termed in scientific literature, coincides with greater flexibility in where we can eat and the accessibility of distractions.