High sugar intake plays a critical role in today’s #obesity epidemic. An important reason for this is that people don’t understand the ingredients of processed food. (1/6)

. @MDallacker, Ralph Hertwig, & @JuttaMata (2018) show that parents’ underestimation of sugar content is associated with a twofold increase in the risk of their children being overweight or obese. https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releases/overconsumption-of-sugar (2/6)

Do you know how much #sugar is in your food? Test yourself at this #TamingUncertainty digital book supplement: https://taming-uncertainty.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chapter-6-element-1 (3/6)

But the problem goes beyond food labeling. Nutritional science and public policy are two other factors that make our food choice environment so complex. (4/6)

One approach to tackling this complex and obesogenic environment is using simple heuristics and boosting parents’ competence as choice architects of the family meal.

Sources: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12659 & https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000801 (5/6)

Read more about the taste of uncertainty in the new book by the Center for Adaptive Rationality ( @arc_mpib): #TamingUncertainty
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/taming-uncertainty (6/6)