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Listen while eating and you could lose weight

Pay attention to the sounds you make while eating and you will lose more weight.

By Editorial March 24, 2017 at 11:00 am

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Pay attention to the sounds you make while eating and you will lose more weight.

In a study by Ryan S. Elder and Gina Mohr, researchers at Brigham Young and Colorado State universities, they detail what they call the “forgotten” flavor sense: sound salience. They found that “increased attention to the sound the food makes may serve as a consumption monitoring cue leading to reduced consumption.”

Source: Food Quality and Preference, February 2016

(March 2017)

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