The reason why you overindulge in snacks may be coming into focus. Getting distracted during a meal may leave you feeling dissatisfied — you might make up for it by eating more food later, a study published Thursday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds. “Overconsumption often results due to a lack of self-control,” … Read more
All day, every day, we are bombarded with images promoting food of every type: television commercials for pizza, online ads for cheeseburgers, billboards for fried chicken, ad nauseam. But new research shows these images — if viewed often enough — actually satisfy our cravings and diminish our desire to eat. This discovery may come as … Read more
Two weeks after Charisse Massey returned from Istanbul, Turkey, where she’d flown for breast- and butt-enhancement surgeries, the 23-year-old mother of two realized that something was wrong. As Massey revealed to journalist Symeon Brown, one breast had “a gaping wound where a nipple should be,” he writes in “Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and … Read more
The secret to eating less may be all in how you plate it. Chinese scientists believe a hack to reduce food consumption, and consequently drop pounds, is all about spreading your food out on your plate. The study published Monday found that cutting food into small pieces and scattering them across a dish can actually … Read more