Published On: September 18th, 2010
The habits and shortcuts your brain uses during the course of an average day may derail your efforts to eat more healthfully and exercise more.
That’s one of the takeaways from a new book that crossed our desk: “On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits,” by Wray Herbert. It’s about heuristics, the “cognitive rules of thumb” that help you deal with the decisions the world offers up to you every day — without having to stop and meditate on each of them.
Some of those rules of thumb may lead you astray, though. For example …

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3 Tricks Your Mind Plays That May Hurt Your Health
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