Mindless Eating Adds up!

Mindless eating adds up

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:28 AM PST

• Moving from a 12-inch to a 10-inch dinner plate leads people to serve and eat 22% less.


• A person will eat an average of 92% of any food they serve themselves.  --serve yourself less!


• The average person makes an excess of 250 decisions about food each day. --plenty of room for a few improvements!


• Low-fat labels lead people to eat 16-23% more total calories.  --hmmmm, food that doesn't tastes as good but we eat more of it??  Not really what we were going for!


• The Nutritional Gatekeeper of a home influences an estimated 72% of all of the food their family eats.  --what you bring home matters!!


• Because of visual illusions, people (even Philly bartenders) pour 28% more into a short wide glasses than tall ones.  --we are NOT good at "eye-balling portions or calories estimates.  Unless you're weighing or measuring, almost everyone will underestimate the amount they eat!


• 50% of the snack food bought in bulk (such as at a warehouse club store) is eaten within six days of purchase.  --buy less -eat less.  Buy smaller -- be smaller.