There are so many great tips like these in the book that other people will undoubtedly find other ways to improve their eating habits in several small steps. This book is aimed at all Americans, not just those of us who have diabetes or are overweight.

I mentioned to Dr. Wansink that his book mentions diabetes only a few times and then just in passing. I wondered why.

“I indeed am very interested in helping with the diabetic cause,” he replied. “There were a number of other diabetes-related mentions in the original draft, but the decision was made to broaden the focus away from an exclusive one on weight loss.”

I also asked him if the subtitle of the book, “why we eat more than we think,” was deliberately ambiguous. It can mean both that we eat more than we think that we do AND that we eat more food than we think thoughts.

He did mean it to be ambiguous. “I was wondering if anyone would pick that up,” he told me.

Dr. Wansink’s research shows that we have to make more than 200 decisions about the food we eat every day. Mindful eating means that we need to think more – not less – about food.