First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson

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  • ISBN 10 0007549709
  • ISBN 13 9780007549702
  • Published Dec 31 2015
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 352
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Publishers Text

We are not born knowing what to eat. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us. Eating is not something we are born knowing how to do. We learn it as children, sitting at the kitchen table, being fed. It is there that we develop our passions and our disgusts, our ideas about which flavours go with what and how big a portion is. Growing up, we define ourselves through our tastes. First Bite draws on current research from both neuroscience and psychology, and the author's experience parenting three children and visiting numerous school canteens, as well as talking to dieticians, biologists and consumer researchers, to look at where our food habits come from; and what it would really take to change them for the better. The food we consume over the course of a day - a week - a lifetime - depends on countless glancing choices, most of which are based on preference. And these preferences, in turn, are largely formed by the way we first learn to feed ourselves in childhood. Of all our behaviours, eating is one of the most habitual and repetitive and one of the least susceptible to cognitive reasoning. This book shows that for our diets to change, as well as educating ourselves about nutrition, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us.

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