> If you want to eat less, stop the music system and switch off the television before heading to the dining table, and tune into the sound of your food while you chew it.
> Researchers have found that the noise your food makes while you are eating can have a significant effect on how much you eat.
> Therefore, watching loud TV or listening to loud music while eating can mask eating sounds that keep you in check.
> The study was published in the journal Food Quality and Preference.
> The researchers carried out three separate experiments on the effect of "food sound salience".
> In one of the experiments, the researchers discovered that people eat less when the sound of the food is more intense.
> In the study, the researchers compared how much participants ate while listening to loud music, to those who were not disturbed by music while eating their snacks.
> They found that louder noise masked the sound of chewing and that group ate more - pretzels compared to 2.75 pretzels for the "quite" group.
> --- IANS
> ( Metroplus,The Hindu, Madurai edition, Friday, March 18, 2016 )
> Courtesy : MPS
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