Food: Why rituals are important

Rituals when eating köcan increase according to a study by the enjoyment and also have a positive impact: With rules, Tricks and solid ­Ablächeck ernäwe do us gesüof

Food ritual: Shared meals connect and are healthy

Together, the table cloths, the meal-consuming to do or just to start eating, when all of the seats at the table: Such table rules apply häoften as überflücasual and outdated. Because food intake is nowadays often beside the point. On the way to work verdrüwe are not covering the Croissant from the Bäsugar, for lunch there are fast something to be filled, and the coffee we like to take in a paper Cup "to go".

Tatsäon the take, but the rituals around eating anything other than unnötig! Who puts a value on, for instance, increases the enjoyment, report psychologists from the Universität of Minnesota (USA) in the journal Psychological Science. Such solid actions in front of the food ­Food köEastern appear. But that’s not the only reason why it is worthwhile to cultivate habits at the table. "Ernäceremony and rituals are closely verbunden", Harald Seitz from the Federal centre f&uuml says;r Ernäcurrency (BZfE). Who fixed Abläufe creates, eats and drinks more conscious. And can even help you lose weight. Fünf rituals around the healthy Ernäintroduction:

Attention eat

Just write an E-Mail, between two dates, the Sandwich verdrücover or wäduring the favorite food: he Who eats by the way, takes up on average more calories, according to a study by the Universität of Surrey in England. The Köthe body is distracted and does not notice when the belly is full. "Außbesides, you eat üon the day mehr", Eva-Maria Endres, Ern&auml says;management scientist from Berlin.

Together feasting

Common food connects – regardless of whether neighbors, colleagues, or Familienangehöolds sitting at the table. "The only social Ritual in all cultures stattfindet&quot is eat;, Endres says. It shows that food is not an Attack üabout the food, but Do together, with each his Bedüneeds under control. In addition, erhöht the get-togethers at the table the attention für our Gegenüber. A study of the Humboldt­-Uni­versität Berlin shows that people eat the negative emotions of your Gegenübers faster notice.

Another positive side effect: Together läa solid rhythm sst is easier to in food intake &ndash comply with; and the schüprotects against plöaddition occurring Heißhunger attacks. Often the thought of a sp&auml can;tere meal help unn&ouml, ;to avoid the term Snacks. "Who weiß, that it is in the evening Vernüto nftiges food, verkneift easier to the Stück cake on späten Nachmittag", is Endres außto concerns also.

If three or fünfmal eat a day is ideal, what is often discussed is pure Typsache, the Ernährungs­expert: "All people are verschie­­the. Some köcan with less, while others deal with more meals is better."

Be täcartridges can

How much we plastered every day, not only that, with whom we eat, but also what dishes. The größhe the plate, the größhe is also, for example, the Portion of the auflädt. A study of the Universität Oxford suggests that red plates the appetite zürules. Other studies come to the conclusion that weiße plate with a narrow rim help with weight loss. Experts speak in this optical Fehleinschäthe establishment of the "Delboeuf-Täuschung": The narrower the edge, the größhe seems to be the Portion. And you eat less automatically. This dish trick lässt also the other way around. For example, Gemüseverweigerern broccoli or Grünkohl schmack­to make The Portion of Gem&uuml: ;se seems to be smaller when it was set up on a plate with a wide edge.

Cooking instead of Tiefkühlpizza

Not only more enjoyment, but also relaxation in the everyday life, if you put yourself on the stove. "You make cooking for the Event, because it is here fängt healthy Ernäintroduction to the Köbody guttut", Ern&auml says;hrungswissenschaft­lerin Endres. Who cooks, you can determine the ingredients and prepare fresh. Who on finished products zurückgreift, does nothing Good. More sugar, salt, bad fats and additives put in the rule, as it is in self-cooked food using würde.

Out of sight, out of mind

Spätesting in the afternoon ümany of the s&uuml berkommt;ße Hunger. Biscuits or Scho&shy are;ko­the charging handle ready to fällt it’s hard not to strike. "You unterschätzt, how much one has already eaten it, if the chocolate directly in front of a steht", BZfE expert, Seitz says. Who is less or gesüof want to nibble on, prepare a healthy Snack and keeps the Süßstrengths außhe reach to. "If sliced fruit or Gemüse stands in front of the nose, to attack faster, rather than standing up and a Stüto get ck chocolate."

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