If we believe a food  is going to be delicious before we taste
it, we're more likely to enjoy it. By Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
msnbc.com contributor updated 11/16/2007 8:48:34 AM ET
2007-11-16T13:48:34  Worried about your family’s diet over the
holidays? Don’t fret. You can trick them into eating more
healthfully.  Because reaction to food resides as much in our
heads as in our mouths, if we believe a food is going to be
delicious, we're more likely to enjoy eating it. That's why
simply making the name of a food more descriptive or tantalizing
can lead us to believe it is tastier.  Knowing how to tease
people's taste buds into liking the food you make can be a big
deal if you're trying to steer your family away from the holiday
cheese ball and toward leaner fare. Imagine getting your family
to eat more veggies just because you call them “snappy seasonal
carrots.”  There's been some controversy recently over whether
parents should deceive their vegetable-hating children by hiding
the veggies in foods, but this tast