Does the size of the table depend on the person's appetite?
American dieticians and scientists have discovered an interesting relationship - they found that the appetite of a person largely depends on the size of the table, behind which he takes food. The same factor has an effect on the size of the portions that it eats.
Psychologists have long discovered that the size of the portion being eaten is influenced by many factors. This includes not only the size of the dishes on which dishes are served, but also the dimensions of the dining table. This was reported to the American edition of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
Earlier experts believed that the size of the portion eaten is influenced by the taste of cooked food. However, they did not exclude the influence of the environment in which the process of taking food takes place. In particular, psychologists noted that on white plates dishes look appetizing, which makes a person eat more. Also relatively large cutlery contributes to more active absorption of food and cause a person to overeat.
In California, at the Polytechnic University, a team of scientists led by Brennan Davis conducted a study in which 200 subjects used pizza while sitting at a table. In doing so, they found the dependence of the amount eaten on the size of the table.
All participants were divided into two groups. One of them offered pizza, cut into eight pieces, and the other participants were given smaller pieces( the pizza in this case was divided into sixteen parts).At the same time, the delivery of dishes differed - some of them were exhibited on tables, which in size were slightly smaller than a plate with food. The other part of the participants used this dish, sitting at a table, the size of which considerably exceeded the size of the dish, in this case the plate occupied a very small place.
After observing the participants of the experiment, scientists noticed that when they are at a large table, a person ceases to notice a significant difference between pizza, cut into eight pieces, and the same dish, but divided into sixteen parts. The main distraction in this case was the size of the table - in particular, its large dimensions did not allow the participants in the experiment to objectively assess the size of the portion. They considered these portions to be approximately equal in size. Therefore, participants, sitting at large tables with small portions, as a result of eating less.
Based on these observations, scientists concluded that if you want to reduce the amount of food consumed you need to sit at a large table with a small portion of the dish.
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