Your friend who always stay thin even though he or she eats anything and everything, is not only annoying. He or she may also destroy your diet, based on a new study which shows that eating also involves a great deal of social pressure.
The University of British Columbia in Kelowna, Canada, has carried out a study and the finding is that during a movie session which is supplied with snacks, college students will in general follow his or her thin friends overeating behavior.
But, the study participants applied more self-discipline during snacking with an overweight friend who overate.
The conclusions, which was published in the Journal of Consumer Research, suggested when a person saw his or her thin friend eat greedily a big meal, gives the person unspoken consent to do exactly the same.
“We think if ‘she can eat like that and stay thin, so can I’ or ‘she is having cake, then I can too’.” Said researcher Brent McFerran. “In other words, the most dangerous person to eat with is not someone who is obese, but a thin friend with a large appetite.”
McFerran and his colleagues enlisted 210 female college students for the study. All the college students believed that the study was on movie viewing. Each of the woman watched a movie together with a friend, who was in fact is a member of the study team.
Generally, the study found, the students consumed more when their thin friend ate a large share, against cases where the overweight friend ate the same large share.
So, the next time you went out with a thin friend, remember this weight loss advice and do not fall for the social pressure.
Nice post!
ReplyDeleteYou are right skinny people have the habit of eating anything also it is not good for the people who want to lose weight.