A Leonard Lopate Please Explain segment on appetite and hunger. Apparently it’s all about portion size, and visual cues on how much we’ve eaten. Among the highlights: Author Brian Wansink rigged restaurant tables with bottomless tomato soup bowls, which would refill via a hidden tube under the table. Participants ate 77% more when the soup just kept coming, and reported no greater level of fullness. Brian’s book looks like a fun read, too.
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I'm Michael Condouris, and this is my second blog. The first one's Wacky Neighbor. I was born in 1975 in New Jersey. I live in Aberdeen, NJ, with my fiancée Carrie, in our new suburban paradise. We have two pets, a Shih Tzu named Coco and a beagledor named Zoë. I was on Jeopardy once. I lost, though, just like in the Weird Al song.
Besides Smallistry, my interests include robots, space, movies, movies about robots and/or space, and Mexican restaurants. Recently I've also become fond of the Wii and ancient history. I dislike conversations about food, sports, other people's children, and conspiracy theories. I'm ok with talking about the weather though. My hat size is 7 1/4, and I have no sense of smell.
I've pretty much stopped blogging in the last, oh, 6 months or so, because talking about tiny things got a bit stale and life had a habit of getting in the way. So for the time being, the site will live on as a Twitter feed of whatever floats through my head.
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May 1st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
[…] you notice? Yeah, kind of, but not as much as you’d think. Because we determine that we’re full by visual cues. So if you can find an 8oz bowl, go for it. As for that little bowl, it was made by Zazen for […]
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 am
[…] Brian Wansink is making the rounds. The NYT covers some of his experiments today. Previously discussed. […]