This Simple Trick Could Make You Instantly Eat Less

You might have heard the common tricks to eating less, like using weirdly shaped plates, or putting less food on the table, but this new trick is all about sound.

According to researchers, if you eat in silence, that's with no headphones, no music, and no TV, you’ll eat less.

Apparently the noise your food makes as you chew it has a significant effect on the amount you eat. This is what researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado State University have discovered, and they call it the ‘Crunch Effect’.

The researchers say that watching TV while eating could be masking all those disgusting slurping and crunching sounds which keep you in check.

‘Sound is typically labeled as the forgotten food sense,’ says Ryan Elder, assistant professor of marketing at BYU’s Marriott School of Management.
‘But if people are more focused on the sound the food makes, it could reduce consumption.’

The researchers played different sounds via headphones to volunteers, finding that people listening to louder sounds ate more.

‘When you mask the sound of consumption, like when you watch TV while eating, you take away one of those senses and it may cause you to eat more than you would normally,’ said Elder.

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