Researchers at Cornell made a great discovery only a few years back. They gave two separate control groups two different kinds of bowls, some of them were self-refilling bowls and others were regular bowls. The diners with self-refilling bowls ate nearly twice as much soup as those with regular bowls. Due to the fact that people like to eat until their platters are clean, the amount of food left in the bowl decided how much more they would eat instead of their hunger level. It says in the post study that even though the self-refilling bowl consumers consumed 73% more food than the other customers and that, “During the post study debriefing, many of those in the refillable condition noted that it seemed impossible to ‘finish their soup’ or to ‘ear all of it.’”
Researchers have only been toying with the powers of serving sizes for a few years now, but manufactures have been deciding on how much we eat for quite some time now. Have you ever noticed the size of a bowl at Yogurtland where you pay for however much you eat or take? The government has a feeling that they can use these findings to their advantage in an attempt to save lives.
