I EAT WHAT I EAT BECAUSE...

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Personal taste, family preferences, cultural influences, emotional reasons, health concerns, societal pressures, convenience, cost, and variety and quantity of the available offerings all come into play when we choose what to eat. "We eat with our eyes first," said Herz, a neuroscientist who specializes in perception and emotion and who teaches classes on the senses and psychology at Brown University and Boston College. "The way food is presented can really influence how much people are going to like it and how much value they think it has."

DID YOU KNOW THAT People who bring reusable bags to the grocery tend to buy more cookies and treats than those who take food purchases home in the grocery store’s plastic bags?

I think that most people assume that food is just food. It’s like this stimulus in front of them, and they respond to it in kind of a pure way. But that’s not the case at all. We have very complex interactions with food. This has to do with all kinds of factors that are in the world around us, beginning with the basics of our senses and how our eyes and our ears and nose and our mouth tell us information about the food. It has to do with the environment we are in. It has to do with our own moods and emotions and feelings and personality. And, so, this whole complex dance is the relationship