Forget serving bowls. If you’re trying to cut back to lose some weight, a simple strategy may help in a big way.
According to a Cornell University study titled “Serve Here; Eat There,” if you leave the serving dishes off the table you may eat less.
The researchers studied the amount of food 78 adults ate under different conditions. They served some meals from the kitchen (“plated the food”) and allowed serving dishes to be on the table at other meals.
They found that people refilled their plates fewer times if food was served from the kitchen. Overall, people ate 20% fewer calories (men ate about 29% less) when serving dishes were absent from the table.
Finding healthy ways to reduce extra body fat could help Americans reduce cancer cases by 100,000 every year according to AICR. Learning to eat smaller portions and limiting “seconds” is one strategy experts say works.
So to lower your risk for cancer and other chronic disease, try this at home: Serve the food in the kitchen and leave the serving dishes off the table – with one exception. Leave vegetable serving bowls on the table. You may find you and your family emptying the vegetable bowl rather than filling up on pasta or meat.
How do you serve your meals?