Eating off a messy table helps you eat less

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Apr 15th 2007 @ 6:02PM

If you're trying to watch what you eat, maybe the best thing to do is, well, watch what you eat. Literally.

According to a new study by researchers at Cornell University people ate 27% less if the table was not cleared after they finished eating something. In ther words, they had to look at the evidence of what they had just eaten.

The study was done on 50 graduate students during the Super Bowl. At a sports bar, the some of the students were faced with left-over bones from an open buffet of Buffalo wings. One of the researchers has suggested that the results of the study might show that "people restrict their consumption when evidence of food consumed is available to signal how much food they have eaten."

Guess we should re-think whether we want our servers in restaurants to clear our empty plates!

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Tags: dining, health, messy table, nutrition, weight loss