Is it actually possible that the way that you see food in your mind can make your stomach feel fuller by just looking at it?
From some research that has been carried out just recently it would seem to be the case. It works like this if we actually alter the way we think about food and how filling it is then so the theory goes, we should feel fuller as a result.
So let’s look at this in a bit more detail and see how it actually works, a group of people were given food and thought that the portion sizes were larger than they thought and felt fuller longer.
People’s recollection of how meals in the past kept them satisfied played a role
also, as to how long they stayed feeling full. This actually suggests that your memory tends to be involved both before and after eating food and how full you actually feel.
So let’s see how it affected some people in a, study when this theory was put to the test. In the first experiment, they were shown the contents of a fruit smoothie, so they were actually looking at all the fruit before it had been blended.
One half of the group was shown a small portion of fruit and the other a large portion then they were asked, which would give them the most satiety. Then they were asked to give their own rating both three hours before and after having consumed the smoothie.
The group which was shown the larger amount of fruit said they felt more fuller, although they were all given the smaller amount of fruit. In another experiment the researchers did something similar using a bowl of soup whereby they actually manipulated the amount of perceived soup they had and the actual amount they had.
They had a pump connected to the bowl, so they could vary the amount that the participant was consuming. So the researchers had total control, of how much they were eating overall.
So three hours later they found out it was the perceived amount that they thought they had consumed which is the remembered amount within their memory. Which decided how full they felt after three hours rather than the amount that they had actually consumed.
Here is what one of the researchers had to say regarding this study.
“The extent to which a food that can alleviate hunger is not determined solely by its physical size, energy content, and so on. Instead, it is influenced by prior experience with a food, which affects our beliefs and expectations about satiation. This has an immediate effect on the portion sizes that we select and an effect on the hunger that we experience after eating,” said Dr. Brunstrom.
“Labels on ‘light’ and ‘diet’ foods might lead us to think we will not be satisfied by such foods, possibly leading us to eat more afterwards,” added Dr. Brunstrom. “One way to militate against this, and indeed accentuate potential satiety effects, might be to emphasize the satiating properties of a food using labels such as ‘satisfying’ or ‘hunger relieving’.”
Is this why that sometimes when we eat food our minds tend to remember what it was we ate in order to feel satisfied so we tend to go back to those types of food more often than not? Because as this research tells us it’s how we actually see the food in our minds, which dictates to our stomachs how full we may feel by the food we are going to eat. And this is probably why it can be hard to let go of engrained eating habits.
Source http://www.sciencedaily.com
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