Size of the Dishes and Colour will effect how much we eat

A lot of peoples want to be in shape and eager to have a beautiful body.Men or women the desire is the same but more percentage on women I guess.But when we face the food it is quite difficult for some to control the intake.Especially delicious foods which we tend to eat more and more until we may not realise how much we had over ate them.

Do you know the size of the dishes and its colour can effect how much we eat? When we use bigger plates we almost inevitably eat more. When the colour of the food contrasts with the colour of the plate we almost always eat less.

"The bigger your dinnerware, the bigger your portion. If you use larger plates, you could end up serving 9 percent to 31 percent more than you typically would," write authors Koert van Ittersum (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Brian Wansink (Cornell University). The average size of dinner plates has increased by almost 23 percent from since 1900, the authors point out, and eating only 50 more calories a day could result in a five-pound weight gain each year.

Follow-up experiments showed that the "bowl bias" is nearly impossible to eliminate with education, awareness, or practise. During two summer camps, larger bowls led people to over serve up to 31 percent more than normal.

One of the few ways to reduce bowl bias is through colour, such as changing the colour of a tablecloth or a plate. In a field study, participants were asked to serve white-sauce or red-sauce pasta on either a large white or a large red plate. On average, changing the colour of the plate so it was high contrast reduced how much people served by 21 percent, and changing the colour of the tablecloth reduced how much people served by 10 percent.