You don’t eat where you refuel your car. Nowadays the American gas stations obtain o greater profit by selling grocery (or cigarettes) than by selling gas. But, about what food are we talking about?

Besides milk and water, there are highly processed and durables snacks and refreshing drinks, that are sweetened in excess, bottled in little pint bottles. The gas stations turned into corn stations with high content of fructose for you.

Try not to eat alone!

Americans eat increasingly more often alone. Although some studies sustain that moderated persons will eat more if they dine in a group (perhaps they spend more time at the table). In the case of those exposed to excess, the meals taken together with other people are limited, because it’s less likely that we stuff ourselves under the eyes of others.

That’s why the advertising is encouraging us to eat in front of the TV or in the car. When we eat alone in a mechanic way, we eat more. The appetite control is one of the smallest advantages of a meal taken with others: this activity evolves eating from a mechanical process of feeding into a family and communication ritual, from a simple biological act into a cultural act.

Psychologists proved, the most of us eat according to external signals, especially the visual ones. The bigger the portion of food, so much more we will eat; the bigger the plate, so much more we pour soup, the more we buy if the wending machine is nicely arranged and the more we will eat, if the bowl with M&M’s is closer to us

The best way to get rid of the Fast Food culture and its values (that the food has to be fast, cheep and easy to cook; that food is a industry product, not a natural product; that food is a fuel, not a form of communication and bounding with other people or a bounding with the nature) is to participate to the complex but fascinate processes that involves the procure of food.