Your Fellow Diners' Appearance May Influence How Much You Eat

One lunch she ate healthilymore salad and less pastaand another she ate less healthily, focusing on the pasta.

While wearing the prosthesis, she again ate one lunch healthily and another less healthily.

The results were surprising for researchers Mitsuru Shimizu, Katie Johnson, and Brian Wansink.

Here’s what they found:

Seeing an overweight eating companion increased unhealthy food intake.

Seeing an overweight companion serving herself healthilyreducedhealthy food intake.

Participants actually ate 43.5% less salad.

So how do you counteract it?

Good advice regardless of who you eat with.

In good company: The effect of an eating companion’s appearance on food intake| The JournalAppetiteviaCornell University