Jul 07
2009Jul 07
2009What Do You Eat When You Eat Alone?
Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 07-07-2009

A lot of research and discussion has been devoted to how people eat in groups. We already know that people eat about 30% more when dining with friends and that teen girls have a reduced incidence of eating disorders when they participate in family dinners and that we eat more in “healthy” restaurants, among other interesting food-as-a-social-construct tidbits. But a new book (which I haven’t read but really want to, thanks NPR!), What We Eat When We Eat Alone, finds authors Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlan on a quest to discover how people choose to eat if left entirely to their own devices.
