If you’re familiar at all with Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Colbert Report,’ then you know how much he delights in poking fun at certain aspects of American culture, especially the overindulgent side. So when reports came out recently that there’s a trend among Americans indulging in a second breakfast, he couldn’t help but get his slice of the mockery pie.
Colbert exasperatedly sighed saying “Finally, second breakfast. For too long we’ve been stuck with strict government approved time slots for shoving food into our face slots.” He continued claiming that he even gets hungry during breakfast, confessing “I need something to tide me over while my fork makes the journey from my eggs to my potatoes.”
Man, we’ve all been there. Right?
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By Melissa Breyer for Care2.com
In a new paper by USC researchers, bad eating habits were shown to persist even when the food didn’t taste very good; but the best nugget of the study, perhaps, is the revelation of a surprisingly easy way in which to counter bad eating habits.
Researchers gave people entering a movie theater a bucket of either just-popped popcorn or week-old popcorn. People who don’t generally eat popcorn during movies ate much less of the stale popcorn, but moviegoers who indicated that they typically had popcorn at the movies ate about the same amount of popcorn whether it was fresh or stale. The conclusion: for people accustomed to eating popcorn at the movies, it made no difference whether the popcorn tasted good or not.
“When we’ve repeatedly eaten a particular food in a particular environment, our brain comes to associate the food with that environment and make us keep eating as long as those environmental cues are present,” said lead author David Neal, who was a psychology professor at USC when the research was conducted.
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While I was typing up my review of the season premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, my brother requested a milk shake as a snack, so of course I tested out what we had just seen Jamie demonstrate, trying to convince the fast food owner to serve healthier options. Jamie and the restauranteur faced off on whether a milkshake requires ice cream to really be a milkshake. Jamie made a version with yogurt that passed the taste-test of a child, but the restaurant owner was not convinced that it could qualify as a milkshake without ice cream.
For my milkshake, I grabbed two bananas out of the freezer, added pourable vanilla yogurt from local Trader’s Point Creamery, organic milk, and blended it well. I’m not a fan of yogurt, but it even passed my taste test.
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