Grocery Shopping with a Mirror? Stay tuned.
Don't know how I feel about this (or you will, when hearing about it). But nutritionists have found a super new way to get people to eat healthy(ier) in the supermarket. Put mirrors in their shopping carts. The point is to steer more people towards the produce aisle, and away from the processed foods, according to The New York Times' Michael Moss. "The mirror is part of an effort to get Americans to change their eating habits, by two social scientists outmaneuvering the processed-food giants on their own turf, using their own tricks: the distracting little nudges and cues that confront a supermarket shopper at every turn," he writes. Researchers are trying to find ways to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables. But instead of preaching about diabetes or slapping taxes on junk food, they are doing things like adding mirrors to shopping carts so you can see yourself when you reach for the Ben and Jerry's, and "glossy placards that hang inside t...