Do you have a clock on the wall?

Well be careful because eating pending the time and in a hurry makes you fat. Scientists from the University of Osaka (Japan) have found a relationship between the speed at which you eat, satiety and obesity. Focusing on chewing a set number of times each bite will help you eat more slowly.

Strong colors influence

The dominance of strong colors such as red or yellow creates a hectic and frenetic atmosphere that encourages you to eat faster and in greater quantity than is advisable. The effect is multiplied if you add fast music at full volume. Fast food restaurants know this and use this resource often.

If the light is soft and dim …

Indirect and dim lights can be perfect for creating a cozy atmosphere, but that makes us spend more time on food, feel more uninhibited and less aware of our reactions. The result: it is easier for us to eat a dessert that we did not have in mind or to serve ourselves a second course.

Be careful with the disorder

Eating a disorderly diet is one of the great enemies of your weight and many experts assure that having a kitchen in which chaos dominates does nothing but favor it. Having a clean and tidy kitchen, and incidentally, a suitable home, provokes the unconscious desire to eat healthier. In addition, the fact of being busy ordering contributes to pecking less.

If there is everything in your fridge, you will eat more

A study by Penn State University (USA) showed that the variety of flavors makes us eat up to 20% more. Try not to have the refrigerator overflowing and avoid high calorie foods with hidden fats. If you don't see them, you won't want to eat them.

That mania of eating in front of the television

Or while you surf the internet, read a book … More than 20 studies conclude that not concentrating on the plate of food in front of us can make us fatten up to 35%. That is because we lose awareness of how much we eat and it causes us to eat more at that moment and, also, at the next meal. The same happens if you eat or cook with your favorite music in the background.

Adjust the portion with dessert plates

Since the larger the plate, the smaller a portion seems to us and the more we eat. Better to serve the correct amount on a small plate. Also avoid using large dishes to serve foods that you should eat less. If you want, with vegetables, give yourself carte blanche.

Cups

We have a great tendency to focus on height rather than width when assessing the volume of a container. That means that when serving a certain liquid in a tall and thin glass and in a low and wide one, we serve in the latter more quantity, up to 30% more according to a study. You know, serve the gazpacho in a collins glass (the combined length).

Beware of dishes and food of the same color

Be careful with dishes and food of the same color

Serving a tomato sauce on a red plate or a carbonara on a white one can make you overeat. Dishes that contrast more with the color of the food help us eat less. On the other hand, if they are of the same tone, we believe that there is less food than there is in reality and we eat more.

The wicked tablecloth …

Although it seems like a joke, a tablecloth of a similar color to that of food will push you to eat more. So … maybe it's time to change the rubber?

Welcome strong smells

You may be bothered by the strong smell of some food, but you should keep in mind that, according to a Dutch study published in the journal Flavor , if the smell of food is very strong, you take smaller bites and eat less. It also happens with textures: with solid foods, the bites are reduced.

Impossible to resist warm colored foods

A survey by the Nielsen group revealed that we are attracted to foods with warm colors such as orange, yellow or red. We reject, on the other hand, foods that have blue or violet tones. One measure that could help us lose weight by avoiding snacking would be to place a blue light bulb inside the fridge.

And after eating … avoid eternal after-hours!

And after eating … avoid eternal after-dinner meals!

Although they are good for digestion, a long after-dinner can become your figure's worst enemy, especially if you do not clear the table when you finish eating. Having a platter of food in front of you is too tempting … The best thing is to pick up at the end and go to another room to chat, or round off the meal with a walk.

You've been on a diet and inexplicably you can't seem to lose weight. As our nutritionist, Dr. Isabel Beltrán, says in her office, it may be due to the yoyo effect –if you have done many diets throughout your life–, because you are taking too much carbohydrate, or due to a lack of omega 3 or certain minerals, but it may also be that your kitchen makes you fat.

The decoration or the light make you eat more

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Yes, yes, as you read. Light, decor, or clutter can make you eat more. In the same way as if you have everything and more in your fridge. The variety makes us eat up to 20% more without realizing it. In addition, habits such as eating in front of the TV, or being aware of the time and eating in a hurry, inevitably lead us to gain up to 35%. And do you know that if you cook or eat with your favorite music, there are more chances that you will eat more? You will allow yourself a "whim" because you will be happier and more content.

Traditions so ingrained in our country such as long after-dinner meals also encourage us to eat and peck more. It is best to pick up the plates and food once you finish eating and take a light walk afterwards.

And the plates, the glasses and the tablecloth too …

Incredible true? Well, there is more … The dishes also play a role. Oddly enough, if you serve food on a plate of the same color - tomato sauce on a red plate, for example - you will tend to eat more, because your brain thinks there is less food in it. The same goes for the tablecloth. If it is similar in color to food, you will eat more. And what about the glasses? It turns out that if they are wide and short they “confuse” us, because we look more at the height than at the width. If a glass is tall and thin we will always serve less quantity –up to 30% less– than in a wide one.

Warm colored foods seem more palatable to us

In addition, it is curious how the colors of food affect our desire to eat. A study carried out by the Nielsen group revealed that we are more attracted to foods with warm colors, above those with blue or purple tones. Why? Because we identify warm colors with those that we can find in nature and we reject blues because we associate them with something in bad condition.

Do not miss these curiosities and others in the gallery, and start to remedy your kitchen and your dining room to avoid overeating.