How We Eat With our Eyes and Not our Stomachs

A study was done in Sweden regarding humanthe interesting thing about this is it tells you how
eating behaviour and what was found from thisthat if you eat with your eyes rather than your
was very quite interesting, it would seem thatstomach then you're more likely to gain weight.
most of us eat with our eyes instead of insteadIf you actually think about this and what is
of our stomachs so what does this actually meanactually happening it seems that when food is put
then.on a plate in front of us no matter how much
Well it would seem that some of the reasonsthere is on the plate we are programmed to eat
why people become overweight in the first placewhat is on the plate, I have got some theories
is merely how they are eating rather than whatabout how this works the food is on the plate
they are eating, some people might know this andand is more or less saying to us eat me eat me
some people may not, that on average a maneat me, it's crying out so this is what we tend to
say for instance only needs 2550 calories per day,do, eat all the food that is on the plate, but think
so it will probably easy to see how easy it wouldabout this for a minute what if you ate more
to be to eat over that amount I mean howslowly so that the time taken for your stomach
many of us actually write-down in calorific notesto give the full signal then you would eat less food
how much we eat, I would say 90% of us don'tsurely, it takes about 20 to 30 minutes for your
take any notes at all about what we eat.stomach to give your brain the full signal, which
Now the study that was done on obese peoplecan give you plenty of time to eat lots of food
found something out quite interesting what theyso the thing is to chew your food eat it slower
noticed was when people are blindfolded, they ateand hence eat less and hopefully lose weight.
22% less food than if they were blindfolded. So