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The trap of mindless eating

Think you got food under control? One scientist says, ‘No, you don’t.’

By Katia Hetter
Special to Newsday

People make about 200 food decisions every day, but they don’t actually think about most of them. To show just how mindless those decisions are, food psychologist Brian Wansink took to his laboratory.

Here’s what he found:

People whose chicken wing bones [...]