Photos someone else's meal Instagrame spoil your appetite

Here is the "diet Fudstagram"



Many annoying habit some Instagram users upload photos of their lunch and breakfast, but it turned out that considering such images, a person can lose weight.

Staff at Brigham Young University, Utah, found that the abundance of photos with food may discourage human appetite and even causes him to abandon a particular dish. The results of their research experts published in an issue of «Journal of Consumer Psychology».



In the experiments, the team of scientists under the direction of Elder Ryan and Jeff Larson attended by 232 volunteers. Half of the subjects looked at the image of different kind of chocolate sweets and cakes, and the other got pictures of products containing large amounts of salt - french fries, crackers and chips. Then the volunteers had to eat a small amount of salted nuts and evaluate their impressions of them. Those who looked at the pictures of sweet, nuts liked more than to examine salty food.



The researchers suggested that this pattern is due to a kind of "visual satiation": enough after watching a product study participants seemed to "load up" and they did not experience a pronounced pleasure from such food. Because of the mechanism of human perception simply "boring" taste of the dish before he tried it.



"If you want to get the most of your meals, try not too much to look at photos of any food, even the most appetizing. At the same time, get rid of the habit of eating harmful and sweet foods, interrupt an appetite through their image "- advises Jeff Larson and Ryan Elder his support:" In order to achieve the desired result is not limited to two or three pictures - look up As long as the thought of a bad diet will not cause disgusted ».

via factroom.ru