Have you ever noticed over the years how the size of say for instance a packet of crisps, seems to contain a lot less content wise than it used to, although the subject matter isn’t actually the amount of food you get in a particular product that you buy.

It’s more a case of what it encourages you to do as regards eating is concerned, these sort of snacks tend to be very popular among young people.

However researchers have found that the actual size of the packet is the is the problem with these, small snacks. Researchers gave two sizes of crisps one large and one small, to a group of 140 students.

They were told that they were participating in a study which involved television and advertising and nothing else was mentioned. The students were given a 200 gram packet of crisps while the others were given nine packets of 45 gram crisps, they were asked a series of questions and weighed in front of a mirror, to make them think with a dieting mindset.

The participants who were worried about their weight ate more of the smaller packets of crisps, compared to the others who ate the larger packets of crisps, and if they were smaller bags they were far more likely to eat them rather than the bigger bags.

So what this goes to prove is that you can be fooled into thinking that eating small packets of any particular snack, will help you long-term with your weight loss, but now with this particular research it seems that this isn’t now the case.

I suppose we tend to think that because there is less food in a packet then we will eat less but in actual fact we eat more than we realise, due to the amount of product that is in the packet.

Source http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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