Hollywood Beach, Florida Runners ~ DO-IT

04/18/2024

03/14/2024

Happy Thursday! What Is This the Secret to Eating Less?

New research says it’s all in how you plate your food. According to the Food Quality and Preference Journal, the trick is to cut your food into small pieces and spread them across your plate to fool your brain into thinking you’re eating a lot more than you really are.

That makes you feel like you’re serving yourself a huge portion of food - when in reality, it’s just spread out.

The researchers say most people’s meals are dictated by portion size rather than how full they feel. And we tend to eat until our plate is clean.

For the study, the scientists used a chocolate bar. Some bars were broken into 9 pieces. Others were broken into 16 pieces. And when those pieces were spread out across a plate,

The participants thought 16 pieces of chocolate was a larger portion than the nine-piece sample - even though all of the chocolate was the same amount.

So, cut up your food, spread it evenly across your plate, and you’ll eat less while feeling more satisfied.

Are you going to start cutting up your food? Let me know. JT