How to help Someone get their Appetite back?

Trying to increase the likelihood that someone will eat something?  Consider Zhou, Chen, and Li’s findings:  “Despite being a fundamental food feature, the effect of food shapes has been underexplored. This study demonstrates that giving hedonic [pleasure-related] foods a round shape increases their desirability, choice probability, and consumption. However, this effect does not apply to utilitarian foods. Such asymmetric effects are attributed to the positive affect [emotion] elicited by a round shape and not to the food’s shape typicality, food…

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