This priority map outlines strategies for getting male engineering students at Stanford to eat slower at dinner. The strategies include chewing food 20-25 times per bite, putting the fork down between bites, listening to music or a podcast while eating, eating with the non-dominant hand, taking breaks from eating to do other activities, and filling the plate with 20% less food. The goal is to help students slow down their last 5 bites of a meal and anticipate when the meal will end to further decrease eating speed.

1. Priority Map - Eating Slower
Getting Stanford Male Engineering Graduate
Students to Eat slower at Dinner
Elie Noune
Stanford University
twitter.com/elienoune
Wednesday, December 12, 12

2. Physical Priority Map
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3. Virtual Priority Map...
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4. Effective in getting Ben to Eat Slower
Take a Listen to
deep Chew Put fork Listen to Eat with
20-25 Breathing Listen to a non-
breath down directions Mellow
Take a times song and dominant
every 3 every 10 while Music
sip of every chew at its Replace hand
bytes Eat with bites eating While
Commit water bite tempo Fork with ONCE
non- Eating
to every 20 dominant Chopsticks
program bites hand 5 ONCE
Take a 3 Celebrate
for 3 times/wk min TV/ Sign Up with a
weeks phone for Slow
Take 3 small
break in deep Food Desert
the middle breaths Program
after sitting
Hide Any Drink
No,
Buy a
Water
Yes,
smaller Laptop/
fork Work/ Cell after
We Phone sitting
We can
can’t
get Ben
get Sit with Look at
Fill a glass Share Join to Do
Ben to Use back of water accomplis Slideshare
Facebook this
Do this multiple turned to Fill plate before -hments on Eating
Group
dishes TV 20% less sitting with FB Slowly
instead of (refill later Read
one Try to Harvard
identify if still
hungry) Article on
every Take Benefits of
Anticipate ingredient breaks to Eating
end of
do refills slow
meal and
slow down Like
Photograph
last 5 bites Facebook
meal before
eating and Page
post on FB
Not Effective in getting Ben to Eat Slower
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5. Priority Mapping Insights
I iterated 3 times to make my ideas more CRISPY.
Sorting by impact was very challenging: it’s hard to tell
which idea is actually better.
I got rid or improved 30% of my initial ideas.
It’s a great exercise, pushed me to prioritize ideas and
anticipate results.
Wednesday, December 12, 12