Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite (salt, conscious, how much)

[Woof]

Who knows, maybe this will help some people a little:

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......full article at Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite : The Salt : NPR

[Dayton Sux]

Wow..ive done this. Ive been using smaller plates and what would be smaller portions do seem larger. Interesting about the drinks, too...