Seeing is believing? Japan invented 'diet glasses' to control appetite

People who try to lose weight or avoid gaining weight by "eating less and exercising more" will feel hungry when seeing delicious food. Unless they have great determination and perseverance, it is easy to fail. In order to avoid the surprise and annoyance every time they stand on the scale, researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan invented a "diet goggles" that "magnify" the food in front of them to 1.5 times, using visual illusions to reduce food intake and achieve the effect of weight loss. (Video/taken from YouTube)

French newspaper Le Figaro reported on the 5th that Michitaka Hirose, a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan, discovered that subjective visual judgment determines the amount of food eaten, and hypothesized that "manipulating vision" can achieve the effect of "suppressing/stimulating appetite". Based on this argument, he invented a pair of "diet glasses". After wearing them, the user can freely scale the food in front of them to create a false sense of fullness or hunger. The experimental results confirmed that when the biscuits were enlarged by 50%, the subjects would eat 10% less on average. Conversely, if they were reduced to only two-thirds of their original size, they would eat 15% more.

Want to lose weight but keep failing? Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have invented a pair of "fool's glasses" that can make you eat less unconsciously. (Photo/taken from France's "Le Figaro")

Michitaka Hirose said that humans are highly dependent on their senses to form first impressions. The so-called "truth" is actually their own subjective judgment. People often "deceive themselves" without realizing it, so it is feasible to manipulate the senses through instruments. In another experiment, Hirose's research team had subjects eat a tasteless soda cracker while blindfolded. When the subjects were "tricked" by the smell of the flavor, as many as 80% of them mistakenly thought they were eating a flavored cookie. This simple experiment also proves once again that "fooling" the senses to affect appetite is not a trick to fool children.