THE FOOD TRAP

What if your food choices are not entirely yours?

You walk into a supermarket intending to eat well. Then packaging catches your eye. A larger portion feels normal. An app sends a perfectly timed notification. You are tired, stressed, hungry, rushed-and suddenly the decision you thought was about "willpower" has already been shaped by dozens of invisible forces.

THE FOOD TRAP reveals what is really influencing the way you eat-and how to take back control without guilt, obsession, or another restrictive diet.

Blending nutrition, neuroscience, psychology, behavior, marketing, economics, and the science of habit, Sophie Domingues-Montanari, PhD, explores why modern eating is far more complicated than simply knowing what is healthy.

Discover:

• Why your brain can want food even when your body does not need energy

• How supermarkets, package sizes, convenience, price, advertising, and delivery apps shape your choices

• Why sleep deprivation, stress, habits, and social situations can change what-and how much-you eat

• Why "just use more willpower" is such an incomplete solution

• How childhood experiences and food memories still influence you today

• Why calories matter-and why "a calorie is a calorie" can still be misleading

• What nutrition headlines often get wrong about processed foods, protein, supplements, the microbiome, genetics, and personalized nutrition

• How to redesign your environment so better choices require less effort

But this is not simply a book about what is going wrong.

It is a practical guide to changing what happens next.

Throughout the book, you will find Start Today actions, Food Trap checklists, real-life case studies, reflection exercises, decision tools, mini experiments, and Redesign Your World strategies that help turn science into everyday change.

You will learn to identify your own triggers, reduce unnecessary food cues, create better defaults, prepare for difficult days, rethink your digital environment, and build systems that make the choices you want to make easier.

The goal is not perfect eating.

The goal is better odds.

Because your eating behavior does not happen in a vacuum-and understanding the forces around you may be one of the most powerful ways to change it.

Stop fighting yourself. Start redesigning the world around you.