Americans stop eating too late

Americans in general keep eating even though they are full. French people don’t seem to have that issue though.

French students always have enough room for dessert if they know beforehand that there will be one. American students often don’t have room. This is because they don’t stop eating when they have had enough. They keep on eating until there is an exterior signal that tells them to stop.

Especially people who are overweight, irrespective their origin, don’t stop in time with eating. They don’t seem to realize that they have eaten enough. They stop eating most of the time because of a signal from their environment. Because others stop eating or because the television program they were watching has finished for example.

More than 130 Parisian students and almost a 150 students from Chicago were questioned about their eating habits for this study. Then a connection was looked for between their answers and their BMI (Body Mass Index). With this study the American researchers seem to refer to a theory that was already thought of in the 1960’s.

In the original theory of Schachter it is said that decisions are always made on the basis of two factors: signals from outside and from within. Where eating is concerned one should listen to internal signals (the feeling of being full) to keep a healthy weight.

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