Size Matters

I am a news junky!  It is amazing all of the interesting facts you can pick up from all the different types of media available to us.  One of my favorite ways to keep up with the news, is by reading it on my phone.

Recently I read that I could lose weight just by picking the right fork.  I have known for a long time that eating on a smaller plate would help you lose weight, so I assumed I should pick the small fork too.  It made sense to me.  Small plate and small fork equals a smaller amount consumed.  Wrong!  I should have been using the larger fork.  I can now blame my lack of weight lose on using the wrong fork!  It is not my lack of exercise or the extra calories that I sometimes eat, it is the forks fault!  I think I will blame the plate too just so the fork doesn't feel picked on.

In the study, they gave people the same size plates of spaghetti, but part of the people used small forks, and the others used large forks.  At the end of the meal they weighed the plates of spaghetti, and found that the group that used the large forks ate less food.  According to the diners that used the smaller fork, they felt like the consumed less because the fork was small, so they ate more.

I am going to give this a try, and start eating with a large fork.  Are you going to give it a try too?

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