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A review by crystalstarrlight
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
3.0
Bullet Review:
This was okay. I wouldn't say I learned anything particularly ground-breaking, but what I think the book does best is try to make small changes instead of overhauling your entire meal plan and eating only raw vegetables or switching to a paleo diet. I did find the various studies interesting, but again, I've read a couple of psychology books, so I get that we think we're way smarter than we are. (But we aren't.) Hell, I can just tell you from my own personal experiences that I have no clue how many calories I eat, give myself way too big of portions if asked to eyeball, and am a member of the "clean your plate" club. Just to name a few.
By far the best line of the book is the one it ends on: "The best diet is the one you don't know you're on". It's not a bad take-away at all.
The narrator was meh. Okay, but nothing to write home about.
I also wonder if this book would be better read in dead tree version just because of the tables and charts that appear.
But in case this sounds like a big fat no to this book, I just want to clarify: It was "OK". Neither bad nor amazing.
This was okay. I wouldn't say I learned anything particularly ground-breaking, but what I think the book does best is try to make small changes instead of overhauling your entire meal plan and eating only raw vegetables or switching to a paleo diet. I did find the various studies interesting, but again, I've read a couple of psychology books, so I get that we think we're way smarter than we are. (But we aren't.) Hell, I can just tell you from my own personal experiences that I have no clue how many calories I eat, give myself way too big of portions if asked to eyeball, and am a member of the "clean your plate" club. Just to name a few.
By far the best line of the book is the one it ends on: "The best diet is the one you don't know you're on". It's not a bad take-away at all.
The narrator was meh. Okay, but nothing to write home about.
I also wonder if this book would be better read in dead tree version just because of the tables and charts that appear.
But in case this sounds like a big fat no to this book, I just want to clarify: It was "OK". Neither bad nor amazing.