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O FITNESS
BY JEFF CSATARI
'Tis the Season to Overeat
How to survive the holiday buffet without packing on the pounds.
SWEDISH MEATBALLS, BROILED
scallops wrapped in bacon, carved
HoneyBaked Ham, fresh rolls, roasted
turkey breast, olives, pickles, hot
peppers filled with mozzarella and
prosciutto, apple pie, walnut roll,
chocolate-dipped cream puffs.
Getting hungry?
Oops! Don't miss Aunt Ethel's
chocolate cake/chocolate pudding
concoction topped with crushed Oreo
cookies that she calls, with no hint of
irony, "Death by Chocolate."
That's just a quick peek at a buffet
table at a typical holiday party. No
doubt you've bellied up to more than
a few, and you inherently know the
power the smorgasbord wields over
reasonable self control.
Researchers say that what we eat
and how much we consume is deter-
WHAT A
REAL SERVING
LOOKS LIKE
1 serving of cheese = 6 stacked dice
Vi cup ice cream = Vi baseball
Vz cup cooked pasta or rice = tennis ball
2 tablespoons peanut butter = ping pong ball
1 serving of fruit or vegetables = your fist
1 serving of meat = deck of cards or your palm
1 serving of fish = a checkbook
mined not by hunger, primarily, but
by environmental cues such as color,
aroma, variety, and volume. "People
eat with their eyes, and their eyes trick
their stomachs," says Brian Wansink,
Ph.D., director of the Cornell
University Food and Brand Lab and
author of Mindless Eating: Why We
&
v
V
Eat More Than We Think. "The more
variety we see on a buffet table, the
more we eat!'
A study in the Journal of Consumer
Research in which people were given
bowls of M&M's candies demon-
strates this phenomenon. When
given a bowl filled with M&M's
in seven colors, participants ate on
average 56 M&M's. When three colors
were added to the bowls, raising the
number of colors to 10, the munchers
consumed 99 M&M's, a 77 percent
increase.
Food marketing researchers can be
devious. In another study, people were
given soup in trick bowls that were
rigged to slowly refill as the people ate.
The experiment showed that people
consumed 73 percent more soup
from the "bottomless" bowls than did
people who ate from the regular bowls
and, get this, the overeaters believed
they were eating the same amount as
the people with regular bowls.
Nutritionists and experts in con-
sumer behavior agree: Easy access to
large quantities of food or large variet-
ies leads to mindless eating. And at no
other time of the year does there seem
to be more buffet-table opportunities
than right now. It has been estimated
that the average American consumes
an extra 600 calories per day between
Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
If you do the math, that turns out to
about six pounds of weight added in
the last 36 days of the year.
There's no avoiding holiday buffets
if you wish to celebrate the season
with family and friends. But there are
many healthful ways to navigate the
buffet danger zone and leave the party
without having to let out a belt notch.
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