The popular diet trick of serving food on a smaller plate to help you control food portions doesn’t actually work, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

But plate sizes have gradually increased over the years, and with it our appetites. Many of us have got used to eating more than we need to, and more than is recommended by dietitians for a ...

Tzvi Ganel, head of the Laboratory for Visual Perception and Action at the Ben Gurion University’s Department of Psychology, headed up the research. Ganel explains that while your plate size has ...

Tectonic plate sizes in Earth's past 200 million years. Darker grey indicates larger plate size. (Image credit: Gabriele Morra) Morra and his colleagues put together a detailed reconstruction of ...

Now further assume that four diners were provided with medium-size plates, say, between 8 and 11 inches in diameter, and they consumed 18, 7, 15 and 4 ounces of food, for an average of 11 ounces.

That means salad plates today are the size of what dinner plates used to be in the 60’s. Frank says this means with dishes that size, calories on a plate have more than doubled.

Journal Reference: Noa Zitron-Emanuel, Tzvi Ganel. Food deprivation reduces the susceptibility to size-contrast illusions. Appetite, 2018; 128: 138 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.006 ...

When it comes to food, you know that portion and plate size matters. But color? Indeed, the color of your plate can make you eat more – or less. If you're trying to get rid of a few extra pounds ...

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