Mindless Eating Tied to Your Environment

正确答案： Much of our habitual eating is tied to habitual experiences. /For example we love to eat popcorn at the movies without even thinking about it. /A study showed that we consumed the food/not because of the taste but because of the experience. /When we"ve repeatedly eaten a particular food in a particular environment / our brain comes to associate the food with that environment. /And this association makes us keep eating/as long as those environmental cues are present. /Researchers proved this by taking a group of movie watchers/ that regularly consumed popcorn at the movies. /Some were given fresh popped popcorn. /Some were given stale popcorn that had been popped a week ago. /Participants ate the same amount of popcorn whether the popcorn was stale or fresh. /Researchers then conducted the same test but put movie watchers in a boardroom./In the second experiment participants only ate the fresh popcorn.
MindlessEatingTiedtoYourEnvironmentMuchofourhabitualeatingistiedtohabitualexperiences./Forexample,welovetoeatpopcornatthemovieswithouteventhinkingaboutit./Astudyshowedthatweconsumedthefood/notbecauseofthetastebutbecauseoftheexperience./Whenwe"verepeatedlyeatenaparticularfoodinaparticularenvironment,/ourbraincomestoassociatethefoodwiththatenvironment./Andthisassociationmakesuskeepeating/aslongasthoseenvironmentalcuesarepresent./Researchersprovedthisbytakingagroupofmoviewatchers/thatregularlyconsumedpopcornatthemovies./Someweregivenfreshpoppedpopcorn./Someweregivenstalepopcornthathadbeenpoppedaweekago./Participantsatethesameamountofpopcornwhetherthepopcornwasstaleorfresh./Researchersthenconductedthesametestbutputmoviewatchersinaboardroom./Inthesecondexperiment,participantsonlyatethefreshpopcorn.