Appetite makes us take supplements at lunch and ignore low-calorie salads. Drives at night to the refrigerator, demanding fried potatoes and buns. American researchers Brian Wansink and Kert van Ittersum have come up with simple but extremely effective practical recommendations for deceiving your own appetite with the help of perceptual errors. Scientists recommend using the mechanisms of optical illusions in the following ways.
Buy smaller diameter cymbals
People who use small plates tend to overestimate the amount of food they put on them. This means that you, without making any effort of will, will be satisfied every day with a smaller amount of high-calorie food. An interesting fact is that over the past 100 years, the size of the average plate that we use daily has increased by 23%. Take a look in your grandmother's cupboard, and you will understand in many ways the reason for the current tendency of mankind to be overweight. Eat high-calorie dishes from plates that are contrasting in color. The brighter the contrast, the more pronounced the Delboeuf effect and the less food you will be satisfied with.
Serve dishes in green plates
Serve healthy foods that you would like to increase your consumption of in large diameter plates that do not contrast with the color of the food. Buy a tablecloth to match the plates. Try not to contrast the color of the tablecloth or napkins under your plates with the color of the dishes. This will reduce the portions you eat by 10%.
Buy narrow tall glasses
This is another optical illusion, the so-called T-illusion. People tend to overestimate vertical lengths over horizontal lengths. Even professional bartenders pour less liquid into a narrow tall glass than into a wide one, assuming that an equal amount of liquid is poured.
Store healthy foods at eye level
Reconsider the arrangement of food in your kitchen cabinets and refrigerator. Remember: what first comes into view is eaten faster. Put healthy foods at eye level. And unhealthy food, if you have already bought it, keep it in a dark far uncomfortable corner.
Eat with men
Another interesting fact: both men and women eat less in men's company than in women's. The reason for this is most likely our gender stereotypes. It is generally accepted that a strong man must have a good appetite, therefore, in a society of women, a man subconsciously strives to appear as a more "powerful" eater. Accordingly, the representatives of the weaker sex want to show themselves as graceful little ones. Therefore, surrounded by men, they eat smaller and more refined.
Proper nutrition is the key to a beautiful figure, but do not forget about sports!
Source estet-portal.com
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