Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky winner... the Pizza Hut Hot Dog Bites pizza!!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Hardee's Most American Thickburger!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... donuts!!

Krispy Kreme donuts being made. Hopefully this image isn't appetizing enough to make you want donuts.

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the Cinnabon cinnamon roll!!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the KFC Double Down Dog!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... barbecue ribs!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... croissants!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky winner... Cheesecake Factory carrot cake!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Pumpkin pie!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Pizza Hut Doritos Crunchy Crust Pizza!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the pumpkin spice latte!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... profiteroles!!

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Food Reward Friday

Today's lucky "winner"... waffles!!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... kettle corn!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the Taco Bell waffle taco!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"...  Kirkland Signature Cashew Clusters!!

 

 

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WHS reader Brad Dieter mentioned these on Facebook the other day:

Nutrition tip of the day. Do not buy Cashew Clusters from Costco. You will eat an entire bag in one fell swoop. Sweet, salty, crunchy, and calorie dense, the perfect storm in Stephan Guyenet's model of overeating. I have n=1 data as proof.

n=1 quickly turned into n=6 as other people chimed in, including myself.  I can attest to the fact that Cashew Clusters are like crack.  Here's more evidence from their Amazon reviews:

"Addiction with less guilt!"  These things are SO freaking good!!!... I'm eating some right now and I am having trouble keeping my hand out of the bag long enough to write this review!

"Delicious".  I gave this as a gift to my girl friend... She loved it ! Heard there wasn't much sugar either. Seems the nuts were crispy and the clusters were very addicting, in a nice way. It lasted only for 6 days. [SG- each bag contains 4,800 calories]

"Buy these and you will be hooked for life!"  One word "NUMMY!"...  Very addicting.

Cashew Clusters are only about 11 percent sugar by calories, with the other 89 percent of calories coming from whole nuts and seeds.  They're probably a healthy snack if you can eat them in moderation.  Can you?

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... Oreo cookies!!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... cola!

Thirsty yet? Visual cues such as these are used to drive food/beverage seeking and consumption behavior, which are used to drive profits. How does this work? Once you've consumed a rewarding beverage enough times, particularly as a malleable child, your brain comes to associate everything about that beverage with the primary reward you obtained from it (calories, sugar, and caffeine). This is simply Pavlovian/classical conditioning*. Everything associated with that beverage becomes a cue that triggers motivation to obtain it (craving), including the sight of it, the smell of it, the sound of a can popping, and even the physical and social environment it was consumed in-- just like Pavlov's dogs learned to drool at the sound of a bell that was repeatedly paired with food.

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky winner... salted nuts!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... beer!!

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