Why You Eat What You Eat, Rachel Herz, PhD
Why You Eat What You Eat, Rachel Herz, PhD
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Why You Eat What You Eat
The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food

Author: Rachel Herz, PhD

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2017


Synopsis

Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Rachel Herz uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that affect food consumption: bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats; our beliefs about food affect the number of calories we burn; TV alters how much we eat; and what we see and hear changes how food tastes. Herz reveals useful techniques for managing cravings, such as resisting repeated trips to the buffet table, and how aromas can be used to curb overeating. Why You Eat What You Eat mixes the social with the scientific to uncover how psychology, neurology, and physiology shape our relationship with food and how food alters the relationships we have with ourselves and with one another.

About Rachel Herz, PhD

Rachel Herz, PhD is a psychologist specializing in smell and emotion. She teaches at Brown University and Boston College, is a professional consultant, and serves as an expert witness in court cases. The author of The Scent of Desire and That's Disgusting, she lives in Rhode Island.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirsty ❤️ on January 12, 2018

This is a completely different book to the diet/healthy eating books I've been reading as it focuses on our taste buds and the way in which people can be given a food and one will love the taste and the other hate it.  It's an interesting insight on why we do what we do when it comes to food. I enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Christina on October 18, 2017

(Also published on the bellevuefarmersmarket.org/blog.) When British mountaineer George Mallory was asked by a journalist, "Why did you want to climb Mt. Everest?" Mallory famously replied, "Because it's there." I feel like, for many of us, Why We Eat What We Eat might be summed up just as succinctly......more

Goodreads review by Cady on January 08, 2018

I was turned onto this book when it was recommended in Martha Stewart Living magazine. I was interested in it because the synopsis talked about learning about connections with our food and habits, such as: why people who bring cloth grocery bags are more likely to buy treats at the grocery store. In......more

Goodreads review by Ronald on November 27, 2017

The term ‘page turner’ is often used to describe a thriller; but in this case, I think that the term adequately describes “Why You Eat What You Eat”. Every page contained a nugget of information gathered from various universities’ social experiments. Food taste, texture, and smell are the determinan......more

Goodreads review by Nya on August 25, 2019

I have been thinking about what to say about this book for a long time so!! while this book was very informative and interesting I don’t think it completely explored how food, and access to food, is a classist, social prestige ordeal and there are more factors that go into why someone eats the way t......more