“Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life"
Brian Wansink, PhD, Cornell University
2:30 - 3:30pm
KONOVER AUDITORIUM
Co-Sponsors:
Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention, UConn
Center for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UConn
Department of Economics, UConn
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, UConn
Department of Nutritional Sciences, UConn
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, UConn
Location
The Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
405 Babbidge Road
UConn Storrs Campus
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture – at http://mediasite.dl.uconn.edu/Mediasite/Play/0d31c9e5b5f34d54b1830dcae44a22f91d
About the Speaker
Brian Wansink received his Ph.D. in Consumer Behavior in 1990 from Stanford University. Wansink founded the Food and Brand Lab in 1997 at the University of Illinois. In 2005 he moved with his Lab to the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. At Cornell he is the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab (http://FoodPsychology.cornell.edu), Co-Director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (http://ben.cornell.edu) and co-founder of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement (http://smarterlunchrooms.org ). He is best known for his work on consumer behavior and food and for popularizing terms such as "mindless eating" and "health halos." His research has focused on how micro- environments influence what and how much people eat and how much they enjoy it. He is the author of over 100 academic articles and several books, including the most recent release Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life (Harper Collins 2014), the best-selling book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Bantam Dell 2006), and Marketing Nutrition (2205). He is a 2007 recipient of the humorous Ig Nobel Prize and was named ABC World News Person of the Week on January 4, 2008. Since 2006, Wansink has written a monthly column on food behavior for MSNBC entitled Chew on This. In July 2007 he joined Prevention.com as one of their two nutrition columnists, writing the column Food Think with Wansink.
Between 2007 and 2009 Wansink was granted a leave from Cornell to become the Executive Director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in Washington DC, leading the development of the USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines. In January of 2009 he returned to his job at Cornell University.
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