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Eating at Restaurants Can Make You Pig Out

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Written by Superhuman
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Stay away from restaurants if you have problems with pigging out. Americans love eating at restaurants. They stop at drive-thrus for doughnuts and coffee in the morning, visit fast food-restaurants for lunch and dine frequently at local bistros. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that people who ate at restaurants frequently consumed 100 to 300 more calories and 10 to 16 more grams of fat per day than those who didn’t. Restaurant eating encourages binging and consuming large portions. Some experts blame America’s love for eating out as a major reason for the national obesity epidemic. Restaurants provide many visual and sensory food cues that encourage overeating. Most Americans could lose weight if they stayed away from restaurants and avoided take-outs and drive-thrus. (Western Journal Nursing Research, 28: 811-824, 2006)

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