Jacqueline Novak Prefers the Big Bags of Chips

Rozin and Schiller argue that the human conversion to chili—which is not seen in other omnivores, such as rats—represents a “hedonic shift.” Around the age of five, children start to season their own food. They see older siblings and parents reaching for the salsa on the table and start to copy them. Maybe the first bite makes them cry with pain, b

“Kid food” is based on the presumption that children have a natural palate for simple carbohydrates, fat, sugar, and not much else.

I change my personal pizza policy. Just one slice. Every week. Sometimes every two weeks. One single, dinky slice. And I love it.

taken me a long time to realize that part of eating well is making friends with hunger. We are not the starving children. To feel mildly hungry two or three times a day—when you are lucky enough to know that another meal is coming soon—is a good thing. All my life—except when I’d been attempting to lose weight—I’d responded to the gentlest of tummy