Month: December 2014

Shrink your plate to shrink your stomach: Research on anchoring and the social effects on eating

Shrink your plate to shrink your stomach: Research on anchoring and the social effects on eating

  Some amazing studies have been conducted by Brian Wansink, professor at Cornell University and Author of the book, “Mindless Eating.”  His famous, “endless soup” bowl study is linked below and illustrates the role of visual cues in hunger.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15761167 His equally famous “chinese buffet”