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“There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.”

Change Food Eating Diet Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Soldiers, like footballers, are famously resistant to new foods.”

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Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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“Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.”

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Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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“Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.”

Change Food Eating Diet Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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“Having other people try to fix you is one of the things that paradoxically holds you back from reaching that magical place called “After”

Change Food Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“We are stuck in habits and attitudes that seem impossible to break. We are stuck thinking food is love. We are stuck with guilt about food because we are female; or stuck not liking vegetables because we are male. We are stuck feeding hungers that often exist more in our brain than our stomach. We are stuck in our happy childhood memories of unhealthy foods. But the biggest way we are stuck is in our belief that our eating habits are something we can do very little about. In fact, we can do plenty. The first step is seeing that eating is a skill that each of us learns and that we retain the capacity for learning it, no matter how old we are.”

Change Food Eating Habits Food Writing

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.”

Change Food Eating Diet

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“It may not feel like it, but you never lost your potential to change how you eat. The wonderful secret of being an omnivore is that we can adjust our desires, even late in the game. It won’t happen on the first bite.”

Change Food Eating Diet First Bite

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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“Changing the way you eat is hard, but it can be done. Look at Japan.”

Change Food Eating Japan

Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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