Gastronomy

The NY Times article Go With Your Gut recommends that we enjoy our foods because allegedly "when you eat something you like, your body makes more efficient use of its nutrients." The caveat is to begin with food with nutritions.

Harriet Brown concludes in the article that "call it Slow Food, conscious eating, or eating the French way, the point's the same: eating well and with pleasure is more than hedonism — it's good nutritional policy and practice." Thumbs up for that statement. Now, what's for dinner?

Decision

This is an interesting study on the process of decision making and the satisfaction on its outcome. The study by Dutch scientists showed that "simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought". Now this new finding makes me want to read the nonfiction book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.

Read more about the study in Science journal: Don't think too much; On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect; Psychology: Tough Decision? Don't Sweat It.