The possibility that meals in front of a personal computer leads to obesity, the amount of snacking doubled The research result revealed

While I think that how you spend your lunch break varies depending on your job category and work environment, eat lunch or bread on the desk while eating bread and rice balls you bought at convenience stores in your office, browsing, checking e - I wonder if there are also a lot of people taking it. Research results that such dietary ways tend to lead to obesity are actually coming out.

As a result of the experiment, the group who ate lunch while using a personal computer said that the amount of snacking doubled compared with the group not having it. Why did such a difference result so much?

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There are many people who have experienced stretching out their hands in breakfast bread with the other hand while hitting the keyboard of the personal computer with one hand. However, taking these meals may lead to obesity.

Researchers at Bristol University divided the participants who cooperated in the experiment into two groups, and the A group used the computer to play card gamesSolitaireWhile doing it, I instructed to eat lunch consisting of 9 items. I instructed B group to eat lunch of the same item number, but did not give other actions like solitaire.

The group A who ate lunch while doing solitaire did not feel too full after lunch. The trend continued after 30 minutes, people in group A ate twice as much chocolate biscuits compared with people in group B. Also, as I confirmed at the end of the experiment, participants in Group A seemed to be unable to remember what they ate for lunch.


ByJana Mills

From this result, it became clear that there are cases where eating while taking something something else sometimes leads to an increase in food intake after that. Of course, increasing food intake also has an important influence on obesity.

Dr. Jeff Brunstrom, leader of the experiment, said: "Usually, when you think about memory, you will be reminded of recalling the list of shopping and people's name, but in reality, the way to the workplace by going back and forth multiple times Memory is a thing that works naturally without being conscious especially to remember or to remember, so that it will not mistake.In addition, it is suggested that memory in this experiment affects appetite. " I said.

This research investigated how the activities undertaken while looking at the screen unlike PC games might affect food intake in some cases, and as a result, as described above, food intake It is backed up. By the way, it has become obvious in previous research that results similar to those who dine while watching TV are seen.

Dr. Brunstrom says that "human perception and memory, and especially attention to the subject will control appetite and will make the amount of meals appropriate," so doing something not limited to personal computers It is considered that you can adjust the amount of nature and meal by concentrating on eating instead of doing it.

In short, because the amount of snacking increases because you eat almost without eating, people who are in the habit of eating in front of a PC are asked to eat If you review whether you are aware of consciousness, it may lead to obesity prevention.