Most people eat until they are full, but after some time they feel hungry and feel like they haven’t eaten anything, in which case they start eating snacks like chips, biscuits, cakes and ice cream. However, a new study has revealed a simple reason for binge eating.
As per a review distributed in the Diary of Character and Social Brain science, participating in different exercises, for example, watching cell phones while eating can cause you to feel more full and less fulfilled in the wake of eating. We get this feeling and satisfaction by eating food.
Stephen Lee Murphy, the lead author of the study conducted at Ghent University in Belgium, says that overeating is also caused by a lack of self-control. However, according to the results, if you become engaged in enjoying an activity and achieving a specific goal, this process also leads to overeating.
In this study, Murphy’s team asked 122 boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 24 whether they expected to enjoy a meal before eating it.
All participants were then asked to choose one of three conditions to eat, one of which was to eat without using any objects or devices, another to watch a video while eating, and the third to play a Tetris game. Had to play.
After lunch, all participants reported their perceptions of the meal about how much they ate, how much they enjoyed it, how satisfied they were, and whether they wanted more satisfaction. Eat them were also noted.
According to the results, all participants who engaged in any activity while eating reported less satisfaction and less enjoyment from eating, with more satiety and an increased desire to eat snacks later.
Researchers have named this phenomenon of eating as hedonic compensation. In which the desired object is to be satisfied by some other additional object instead of being satisfied.
If this is the underlying cause of overeating, more research is needed to design different ways to deal with overeating, as well as to replicate and confirm the effect of hedonic compensation, Murphy and his team say. intends to