Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Restaurants Do you eat with fat people or skinny people?
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM
It matters, according to new research:
Whether your companions are overweight or skinny and how much they put on their plates can greatly influence how much you eat. New research shows if we eat with skinny people, we tend to mimic their food portions, regardless of how much they take. However, if we eat with overweight companions, we generally try to adjust our portions to be different.
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Interesting. When I eat with fat people, I tend to eat more, because I feel like I can without looking like a pig...When I eat with skinny people, I eat less, so I DON'T look like a pig.
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I dated a quite fat guy in college and lost a LOT of weight in the process. Watching him eat just made me think of getting fatter myself. It was a great diet. I am with a thin guy now and it's all about portion control, although it does piss off waiters when we order one appetizer and one entree. They need to re-size the (giant) portions in restaurants or quit getting pissed off.
Along similar (though more technical) lines, there was another interesting article in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple years ago about how being close with someone who becomes obese makes you more likely to become obese yourself.
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