{"id":16096,"date":"2017-11-04T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2018-06-28T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T05:32:15","slug":"labeling-snacks-meal-can-prevent-overeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16096","title":{"rendered":"Labeling snacks as meal can prevent you from overeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A new research says that calling snacks a meal could prevent you from over eating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The research examined over 80 people. They were asked to eat a packed pasta either labeled as a snack (consumed in the standing position using a plastic fork in a plastic pot) or a meal (consumed in the sitting position inside a restaurant using a metal fork in ceramic plate). They were then, asked to taste additional foods such as crackers, potato chips and so on. The study found that those, who ate pasta as a snack consumed much more pasta than those, who ate pasta as a meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;With our lives getting busier, increasing numbers of people are eating on the go and consuming foods that are labeled as &#8216;snacks&#8217; to sustain them,&#8221; commented study author, Jane Ogden, professor of health psychology at the University of Surrey, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;What we have found is that those who are consuming snacks are more likely to overeat as they may not realize or even remember what they have eaten,&#8221; she said in a university news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She suggested that we should call our food a meal and eat it as a meal only. This would make us aware of how much we eat and what we eat to eventually, prevent ourselves from overeating.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research says that calling snacks a meal could prevent you from over eating. The research examined over 80 people. They were asked to eat a packed pasta either labeled as a snack (consumed in the standing position using a plastic fork in a plastic pot) or a meal (consumed in the sitting position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[33529],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-health-news","tag-overeating-meal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}