When Pleasure Backfires & The Truth About Losing Weight - SYSK Choice
Something You Should Know

When Pleasure Backfires & The Truth About Losing Weight - SYSK Choice

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 24, 202653 min
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Today, on Something You Should Know, how could 15 more minutes of sleep make a huge difference in your life? Then, we live in a world of abundance and pleasure, which should make us happy. You would think so, except that our brains are not adapted to a world of infinite pleasures.

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And the result is that we're actually more unhappy, more anxious, more depressed. Also, what you need to do to your cell phone right now in case of an emergency later. And how can people realistically lose weight? Because being overweight is a problem for so many people.

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Certainly one factor is there's more food at more places. Also portions are larger, so we dine out more and we get larger portions at restaurants. And studies show that we tend to eat what's in front of us. So if we serve a giant portion, we're more likely to eat it.

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