How to Place Healthier Food

I just watched a very interesting segment on Good Morning America.

In it, the filmed a behavior lab and offered both healthy and unhealthy foods in a break room at a company in New York.

What they found was that:

1.  If the healthy food is placed higher, say, on a pedestal, people will eat more of it and the platter will empty faster.

2.  If a mirror is placed in front of the unhealthy food, people will eat less of it.

So, think about this when you are eating or putting food out for others to eat. If you place the healthy food up high, odds are, it will be eaten more often.

And if you do have less healthy food out, prop a mirror up behind it and see what happens.

Jim