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From Vanderbilt University:
Variety may trump virtue when it comes to the struggle to eat healthy, says a Vanderbilt marketing professor who studies consumer self-control and endorses "vice-virtue bundles" combining nutritious and not-so-nutritious foods.
"We suggest a simple ... solution that can help consumers who would otherwise choose vice over virtue to simultaneously increase consumption of healthy foods (virtues) and decrease consumption of unhealthy foods (vices) while still fulfilling taste goals -- 'vice-virtue bundles,'" Kelly L. Haws, associate professor of management at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, said.
The idea is to not give up entirely foods that provide pleasure but aren't nutritious. Instead, the focus should be on lowering the portion of the "vice" foods and correspondingly raising the portion of a healthy food to replace it.
In a series of experiments, Haws and her colleagues found that people have a "taste-health balance point" -- a proportion of vice and virtuous foods that make up one serving which they find satisfactory. For most, the perfect vice-virtue bundle is made up of a small (1/4) to medium (1/2) portion of vice. So if a vice-virtue bundle was made up of fries and slices of apple, it might take a small or very small serving of fries to satiate the need for the vice food.
The full paper is available as a PDF.
(Score: 2) by zsau on Thursday August 14 2014, @01:32AM
You don't have sweet-n-sour pork, peppers, onions, garlic, spices, almond flour, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, a wok or chicken stock. Your legs are tired from standing up all day and walking to the bus stop besides busy roads with loud and smelly traffic. Not to mention the freeway behind your house, giving you and your kids various health problems (but you don't actually know that, because you don't have time to get to the doctors between your two minimum-wage jobs). You probably don't have 50 minutes to do something as stressful as cooking, especially when you're worried about having enough money to pay the rent, much less the gas/electricity bill.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:34PM
Actually, I do. There's pork in my freezer and I always have the other ingredients mentioned. I've owned a wok since I moved out of my Dad's house.
So I'll sit down in between stirs.
Not exactly sure what this has to do w/ the discussion. If my kids are not eating well then they have other health problems that I can address by feeding them good food.
If I eat fast food to "save time" then I'll need to allocate 50 minutes somewhere so I can work out and burn the fat my body just squirreled away from the meal.
You make it sound so hopeless. If I'm in such bad financial shape that I must work two minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet, why the hell would I even think about having kids?
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