Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite

This is interesting. I have tried the the changing of the plate size. For me it works, I actually put less on the plate because it looks like the right amount. Try out it and see what it does for you.

Think you know how to avoid overeating? Think again.

Research suggests that choices, like how much to eat during a meal, are often made subconsciously. Trouble is, our brains are hard-wired to mislead us in lots of little ways, which can have a big impact on our diets.

Take the Delboeuf effect, an optical illusion first documented in 1865. It starts with two dots of equal size. But surround one dot with a large circle and the other dot with a small one, and suddenly the second dot looks bigger.
 



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