There is a place called the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. I guess somebody has to do it.
A group of 45 volunteers were permitted to eat as many chips as they wanted for five-minute intervals over three-week periods while watching the late night monologues of David Letterman and Jay Leno.
The results - the people ate 44% more chips while watching Letterman and 42% more while watching Leno than when the tube was off.
Conclusion - Letterman is a little bit funnier than Leno?
Yup, and that if you are distracted, you will eat more.
Second conclusion - pay attention to what you eat and you will know when you are satisfied, getting full or have had enough.
Researchers say that the sensory gives clues to signal satiety and when we are distracted, watching TV, a good movie...we chow down more.
The solution...watch boring programs.
But...what about people who eat when they are bored?
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