Judging Satiety with Your Stomach
After living in Japan for three years one of the first things I noticed when I came back to the US was the number of overweight people. This was back in 1991. There are not nearly as many overweight people in Japan. There can be all sorts of reasons for that, but one of the major ones is portion size.
Go to any restaurant in Japan and you get reasonably sized portions. Americans who go there call them small, but I would argue they are just right. This is an interesting article from CNN showing a sort of off-beat experiment where two groups were tested. One group ate soup from a normal bowl. The other group ate soup from a bowl that would secretly keep the bowl filling up from the bottom. Pretty easy to guess who ate more even though both groups reported the same level of "fullness".
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/04/ig.nobels.ap/index.html
A 73% difference!!! Wow. But it is true. When you eat, judge with your stomach before judging with your eyes. Eat well and keep active.
Go to any restaurant in Japan and you get reasonably sized portions. Americans who go there call them small, but I would argue they are just right. This is an interesting article from CNN showing a sort of off-beat experiment where two groups were tested. One group ate soup from a normal bowl. The other group ate soup from a bowl that would secretly keep the bowl filling up from the bottom. Pretty easy to guess who ate more even though both groups reported the same level of "fullness".
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/04/ig.nobels.ap/index.html
A 73% difference!!! Wow. But it is true. When you eat, judge with your stomach before judging with your eyes. Eat well and keep active.
posted by George @ 6:23 AM
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