Diets
This Color Plate Will Help You Lose Weight
The best-kept weight loss secret might not just be what you eat, but also what you eat it on.
The best-kept weight loss secret might not be only about what you eat; It may be more about what you eat it on.might not be only what you eat after all. Maybe it’s also what you eat it on. Scientists are saying that the type of plate you put your food on might be just as important as what type of food is on that plate, when it comes to weight loss.
The crazy thing? The weight loss secret has nothing to do with the size of the actual plate. The focus, instead, is on the color of the plate.
Red plates are thought to release a “danger” or “avoidance” signal to us, which may reduce our appetite, thus reducing the overall amount of food we eat in a sitting.
“Snack foods—unhealthy stuff on a red plate—you end up eating a little bit less because it’s that red color on a plate where it seems to trigger some sort of danger or avoidance signal,” said Dr. Charles Spence, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford.
And what color plate do you not want to eat off of if you’re trying to lose weight? White.
In 2011, researchers from the University of Valencia asked people to eat the same exact dessert off of a white and black plate, changing the order of which plate was used first. The results revealed that participants not only enjoyed the dessert more off the white plate, but thought it tasted sweeter.
“White plates generally have a contrasting color to the food, so people are better able to judge the color of the food itself rather than being influenced by the background,” Dr. Spence added. “It may also be that our brains keep track of the all the foods we’ve eaten and the sort of plates we’ve eaten them off.”
Well, we know what color plates we’re buying this weekend!
h/t DailyMail.co.uk
