We are designing our lives to make it easier to get fat

The way our homes, restaurants, and shops are set up have led us to pick up treats rather than apples, a food psychologist has claimed.

Brian Wansink, a US expert on changing people’s eating habits, believes people can learn to eat less without thinking about it.

The professor, a guest speaker at the Nutrition and Health Foundation’s annual seminar in Dublin yesterday, believes people become fat by design.