By Helen Regan
People may be able to control their hunger pangs (to an extent) if they try to remember the last food they’ve eaten, a psychologist has found.
Eric Robinson says psychological factors can impact how much you eat and believes appetite is formed in the mind as much as it is in the stomach, the BBC reports.
The University of Liverpool scientist studied people who suffer from anterograde amnesia and found that they still have a sensory memory of the food they have eaten, even though they have no conscious memory of it.
Similarly, those who were made to mediate on the food they’ve already eaten throughout the day felt less of a need to consume more.
Read more at the BBC.
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