The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
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The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
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#2Mom: "There are starving kids in China, eat all your food!". Thanks Mom; kids are still starving there, and now America is fat. --unkown comedian.
I was told, as a kid, that it was rude to not eat all the food put in front of you, especially at other people's houses. Other parents would comment on how polite we children were for clearing our plates.
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#3As a rule of thumb, I tell myself that it’s better to throw away food than to overeat. (Preparing just the right amount is even better, but more difficult.)
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#4At the risk of sounding preachy, I was raised with the “clean plate” philosophy and avoided overeating by planning beforehand what I could reasonably eat, and never putting anything more on my plate. Once you get rid of the incentive at the very end to eat just a bit more, I don’t see this as being a huge problem anymore.
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#6At least where I live in Norway I would argue that it is not the amount of food you eat during a meal that is a problem but everything else in between regular meals (coke, chocolate, chips etc.).
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#7Another solution is making smaller portions. The sizes restaurants give you are ginormous.
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#8At the risk of sounding preachy, I was raised with the “clean plate” philosophy and avoided overeating by planning beforehand what I could reasonably eat, and never putting anything more on my plate. Once you get rid of the incentive at the very end to eat just a bit more, I don’t see this as being a huge problem anymore.
I have a friend who preaches this. But then she also has these regular high-tea parties where everybody brings cake. Ok, they eat all the cake, but since they are eating more than they actually need, it's still a waste ...
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#9I wonder if this has been replicated - wasn't immediately obvious to me, and I'm now perhaps overly suspicious of any and all food science claims after the Wansink disaster:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/19/17879102/br...
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#10The real innovation here is - to-go bags.
Just keep a spare zip-loc bag in your pocket, ready for the sudden and embarrassing situation when you are full with food left on the plate.