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“The eating environment has morphed into an atypical scenario where our usually helpful mental mechanisms betray us,” says Andrew Geier, lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania.

U. PENN (US)—A cognitive shortcut, or heuristic, that causes people to ignore vital and obvious information may have played a significant role in America’s weight gain over the past 30 years. Continue…

Friday, June 26, 2009 17:11 - 0 Comments


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