If you want to eat less, a good way to start would be concentrating on the sound you make as you chew your food.
The researchers have found that the noise your food makes while you are eating can have a significant effect on how much food you eat. Therefore, listening to loud music or watching loud TV while eating can mask eating sounds that keep you in check.
The researchers conducted 3 separate experiments on the effect of ‘food sound salience.’ In one of the experiments, they found that people eat less when the sound of food is more intense.
Researchers compared how much participants ate while listening to loud music to those who were not disturbed by music while eating their snacks.
It was found that loud noises masked the sound of chewing, as a result, that group consumed more ? 4 pretzels compared to 2.75 pretzels for the ‘quiet’ group.
The study has been published in the journal, Food Quality and Preference.