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Lacy Gray 04/16/08 Choice Overload
by Lacy Gray, click here for bio

Program: Food Forethought
Date: April 16, 08

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Ever driven around and around while the family tries to decide where to have dinner? Well, there seems to be a scientific reason for your familys inability to pick either steak or seafood. A new study has determined that when people are faced with numerous choices, either good or bad, they find it almost impossible to stay focused. Rather like a computer that when asked to do multiple tasks at one time will occasionally lock or seize up. Todays world is a plethora of choice overload; from whether to have green tea, a grande skinny double shot latte, or the fresh squeezed juice bar as your refresher, to trying to pick out that Friday night movie at the local video store. Which by the way shouldnt take longer than the movie itself! But having choices is typically a good thing, right? Perhaps not, when all those choices can cause extreme mental fatigue and low productivity. Maybe Grandpa had the right idea, always having coffee, one egg, toast and fruit for breakfast everyday for fifty years! Perhaps there can be too much of a good thing.

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