Bottomless Meals Add Weight

Bottomless Meals Add Weight October 26, 2009 Does your stomach dictate the amount of food you eat or is it the eye? You may be surprised.... Brian Wansink, author of the paper, "Bottomless bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake" led a team of researchers in a very unique experiment at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 54 adults were given a free lunch of soup. They were unaware that they had been divided into two different groups. Both groups ate from the identical 18-oz bowls. One group, however, slowly had their bowls refilled as they ate. These bowls had tubing connecting them to an unseen soup cauldron so that as they ate, more soup was slowly added to the bowl. This second group ate an average of 73% (113 calories) more. When asked, they thought they had eaten about the same as the others and didn't feel they had overeaten nor did they rate themselves as being more full. Wansink surmises, "People use their eyes to count calories and not their stomachs. This can be dangerous to our diets." The research suggests we tend to eat until the food is gone rather than deciding in advance how much we will eat. Read More     Gender Based Eating Habits   Can What You Eat Determine How Well You Can Think   The Advantages of Having Your Own Garden To unsubscribe or change subscriber options   click here .

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