Watching TV will make you fat! Tragedy with rice, eat 694 more calories

The Korean drama "My Love from the Star" was popular on the Internet a while ago. Many fans followed the progress of the drama while eating the heroine Cheon Song Yi's favorite - fried chicken and beer, fantasizing that they could also have a slim figure and romantic relationship. However, the Tung Foundation stated that watching TV while eating can easily make people gain weight. When watching a tragedy, one will consume 694 extra calories, and when watching a comedy, 490 extra calories (each bowl of rice has about 280 calories). Therefore, it is better to concentrate when eating!

Studies have found that being distracted by watching TV while eating can easily stimulate appetite, reduce satiety, and cause people to unknowingly consume too much food and calories.

Watching TV stimulates appetite, sad plots have the greatest impact

The Nutrition Group of the Tung Foundation cited a study published in the 2013 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by the University of Liverpool in the UK that compiled 24 studies between 1997 and 2011, all of which concluded that doing anything distracting during a meal would increase calorie intake.

A French study in 2004 found that watching TV while eating would lead to an additional intake of 272 calories, and listening to radio dramas would lead to an additional intake of 293 calories. A US study in 2006 further compared the impact of watching TV while eating to that of listening to music, with an average of 255.5 calories more consumed. Not paying attention while eating will also make you eat more at the next meal. An Australian study in 2011 showed that people would eat 230 calories more after watching TV while eating.

Further analysis of different types of programs showed that watching tragedies had the greatest impact, causing people to eat 694 calories more, while comedies had 490 calories and boring programs had 359 calories more.

How much you eat is also related to the dining environment. A Swiss study in 2011 showed that dim lighting can make people eat 123 calories more. A US study in 2007 found that when eating at a buffet, people can eat 53 calories less on average if they do not collect empty plates. A 2012 study by Cornell University in the Journal of Psychological Reports also found that loud and fast-paced music in fast food restaurants can make people eat faster and eat 174 calories more.

The Tung Foundation reminds that if you want to lose weight or maintain a healthy body shape, the easiest first step is to focus on eating.

The lazy way to lose weight! Step 1: Focus on eating

If you want to lose weight or maintain a healthy body shape, the easiest first step is to focus on eating. Xu Huiyu, director of the nutrition group of the Tung Foundation, said that eating attentively and chewing slowly are basic principles for weight loss, but modern people are often distracted or eat in a hurry when eating, which makes it difficult for them to generate fullness messages in their brains. They think they are not full and eat too much, and they have no idea what they have eaten.

Moreover, many people only care about the amount and calories of food when they are trying to lose weight, but their eating habits do not improve. Even if they lose weight, they will easily gain weight again. Insufficient chewing can easily cause bloating and indigestion, or they may swallow the soup or rice without noticing the small bones, which can easily cause gastrointestinal damage.

The Tung Foundation emphasizes that modern people are busy with their lives and treat eating as a routine, often overlooking the importance of "mindfully eating slowly". On weekdays, they finish a meal in just ten minutes or by cramming a few bites. On holidays, they have a compensatory mentality and feel the need to reward themselves with a big meal. In the long run, this can easily disrupt the body's rhythm, not only causing obesity but also affecting the overall metabolic function.

If you want to be healthy and slim, the Tung Foundation recommends that you eat attentively, chew slowly, and eat at regular times and in fixed amounts, and eat until you are 80% full. Don't be idle while eating, or check Facebook, TV, or computer. Focus on the food and enjoy the pleasure of eating. This will naturally increase your physical and mental pleasure and satiety, and you won't consume too many calories.

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