Moderate eating with pleasure and without effort: Toward understanding the underlying psychological mechanisms

The inefficacy of current healthy dietary promoting interventions, as individuals grapple with adherence to dietary guidelines, raises the need for more effective approaches. Recent publications highlighted the promise of using pleasure derived from eating to encourage consuming healthy foods. In this study by Vaillancourt et al. (2019), the authors juxtapose insights held on food, the […]

In this article by Wiggins (2010), the author investigates the expression of pleasure derived from food from a socially interactive and digressive lens. Published psychological works on food and eating investigated individual consumption, and only conceptualized the somatic experiences of food, which may be regarded as a lack in appreciating the parts played by social […]