Eating healthy?

Our Restaurant shoot at Dijkers seems to be popping up everywhere. The latest find of one of our images is on an italian site, Fitnesspeople. Nice

The image in question was purchased from Dreamstime.

A google translation below the read more link, as usual!

Eat at the restaurant, never being conditioned by the diners at the table

At the table we are influenced by others in the choice of dishes and portions. Better to choose food according to our dietary needs.

Author: Arianna Bernardini (Mar, 12/01/2010)

When we go to the restaurant, the choice of plates and dishes that we order is not totally free, that does not only depend on our will. The preferences of our guests are able to condition, even if we do not realize it.
A sustainable, and a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, designed and conducted by Alexandre Steyer of the Sorbonne in Paris and Pascale Quester, University of Adelaide, who examined the choice of dishes from the customers of Flam’s restaurant in Paris.
The two scholars have analyzed the behavior of people sitting around a table ordering dishes and drinks selection within a fixed price menu.
According to data collected, researchers have established that we tend to choose foods other than those ordered by our guests only when each of them chooses a different plate, or, conversely, when most people order the same scope.
Tend to follow the overwhelming choice if a mid-point percentage (between 30 and 70%) of people sitting at our table is oriented for the same dish.
A proof of the influence that others have on our choices of food to provide a study appeared recently in this journal.
An experiment conducted by American and Canadian researchers analyzed the behavior of 210 university students, who were asked to watch a video and use free snacks offered. Accompany each student during the movie there was an alleged relationship that, in fact, was an accomplice of the researchers. The girl’s task was to serve first and snacks to take on different portions each time.
As expected, it has been observed that the students adjust the amount of snacks eaten portions taken by the colleague.
Moreover, we know how the social contexts and the actions of others often influence the way we act. And this can happen even during meals should not surprise us.
The research described should make us aware of the mechanisms of imitation that can take when we eat together. And lead us to consciously choose the dishes and the portions that serve more to our health and that fall into our regular diet choices.
In short, to resist the temptation to impose throat that other diners will instead grant is a way to assert our individuality to the table.
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