Diet & Food
Posts involving food, dieting, and other health-related topics.
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Background: Print news has unfortunately been dealt a mortal blow by a combination of the Internet and mobile phones. But there’s still one way to take advantage of the physical nature of printed news—a way that cannot be replicated by news on a phone! Proposal: We can bring printed newspapers and promote a healthy lifestyle…
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The issue: It’s often hard to keep track of the quantity of snack food that one can eat. For example, if you eat a single “fun size” candy bar every hour at work (maybe you work somewhere with a collective candy bowl), you’ll accumulate 3200 additional calories over the course of an 8-hour 5-day work…
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Background: Even the most un-choosy eater cares at least somewhat about the visual appearance of food. A food item that looks “off” somehow will trigger a natural aversion to spoiled food. Proposal: This aversion to bizarre looking food can be used to help people maintain a healthy diet! The process is as follows: certain foods…
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Background: If you have a communal coffee carafe at work, you will undoubtedly have encountered the situation where someone poured the last cup of coffee and didn’t make a new pot. With a standard coffeepot or carafe, there’s no possibility of getting “just one more cup” out of an empty container—it’s just empty. But!…
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The issue: For most snack foods, it’s easy to eat a HUGE quantity of the food in question. This is no surprise—snack foods were specifically designed to be easy to eat. Plus even after you’ve eaten a bunch, it takes a minute or two to feel full. Proposal: Here is a technique to eat fewer…
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The issue: Sometimes, when you’re eating an ice cream out of a cone, you will suffer the indignity of having the ice cream drip onto yourself and/or the ground (see Fig. 1). This is especially likely to occur if you are less than five years old. This can be avoided by diligently rotating the cone…
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One weird mythological punishment for cannibalism, reborn as a dieting fad!
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Background: In an ancient Greek myth, King Tantalus was condemned to spend his time in the Underworld starving in a garden with a tree filled with fruit—however, any time Tantalus attempted to grab a fruit, the tree branch would bend just out of reach, preventing Tantalus from acquiring the delicious fruit. (In case you are…
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TITLE: Even the tiniest portion of food will feel satisfying when it looks like a huge meal! The one weird trick that cost-cutting dining establishments don’t want you to know! Background: Food is delicious! Consequently, it’s too easy to eat too much of it. If only there was some way to make a meal seem…
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Background: When a fully-stocked kitchen is just one room away from you, it’s really easy to constantly snack at non-officially-sanctioned mealtimes. The issue: But the tyranny of prescribed mealtimes must be obeyed if one is to avoid eventually becoming completely spherical (due to being completely full of delicious snacks). Fig 1: A delicious snack in…
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Background: Most hotel ratings only go up to five stars. But perhaps there is something truly incredible that can cause a hotel to warrant a sixth star? The hotel rating system is currently highly arbitrary. For example, here are some of the requirements for a 5-star hotel as listed on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_rating) Five star requirements:…
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