Light Diet: Eating Food without Seeing It May Impede Ability to Judge Hunger

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 09:49 in Psychology & Sociology

As psychologist Benjamin Scheibehenne and his wife left the restaurant where they had just finished dinner, they discussed whether to stop somewhere else for dessert. It was an everyday decision, one they had made countless times before, but this particular evening they could not make up their minds."When we came out of the restaurant, we didn't really know whether we were still hungry or not," Scheibehenne recalls. "We realized we were completely clueless about how much we actually consumed." [More] Psychologist - Mental health - Health - Disorders - Eating

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