for fun alternatives to watching TV. Or search the following categories:Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 percent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 percent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV.
"If you can concentrate on how the food tastes you'll eat less because you'll feel full faster," Hirsch said in an interview at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Toronto.
Entertaining TV programs make you eat, study finds
Comments: This is yet another way in which the TV makes you fat, and thus a factor in the obesity epidemic. Most viewers know from experience how easy it is to consume large amounts of food while engrossed in a show. Now they have proof and a possible explanation why this is so.
According to this study, the TV makes you eat more because it is distracting and this interrupts the messages to your brain that you are full. You are also less aware of what you are eating. There was another study last year that found similar results with young children.
So, if you want to control your diet, DO NOT EAT IN FRONT OF THE TV!
