Cooking Pots on the Table Makes You Eat More

When you eat with cooking pots on the table, you eat on average 20% more than if you eat with only one plate in front. For men this raises to 29% more food.

"With food stick to the simple rule: out of sight out of mind. When we no longer think of the extra food we feel less to eat more. The same goes for snacks. When we see vegetables we will eat rather the vedge than taking an unhealthy snack from the refrigerator, say the researchers.

The test results show that men are more sensitive to the visibility of pots than women. So they eat on average 29% more. With women this figure stays only 20%.