How many people happen to see pictures of food in a moment of particular hunger and feel like our appetite is being increased? Well, according to a study by Aarhus University Denmarkpublished in Appetite, repeated visual administration of the same product can produce the opposite effect: the saturation. Possible?
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“In our experiments, we showed that when participants saw the same food image thirty times, they felt more satiated than before they saw the image,” explained Tjark Andersen, who recently completed his PhD at Aarhus University’s Department of Food Science. Yet it seems that when our stomachs are crying out for food, seeing food pictures on Facebook or Instagram makes us hungry.
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Less appetite
“Participants who were shown the image multiple times also chose a smaller portion than those who only saw the image three times when we later asked what portion size they wanted,” Andersen said. “It may seem strange that participants felt full without eating, but it’s actually completely natural how we think about food and has a major impact on our appetite.”
experiment
In the experiment, they involved over a thousand people, to whom they showed a picture that only showed chocolates of a certain color; Some were shown the image three times, others 30 times, and the group that saw the most images felt more saturated afterwards. Even if you showed pralines of other colors, the result remained the same.
way to lose weight
“Imagine developing an app based on a Google search. Let’s say you want a pizza, open the app, select the pizza and lots of photos of the pizza will appear while you imagine eating it. That way, you could get a feeling of satiety and maybe stop cravings for pizza,” Andersen concluded. Read the full article
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