If you’re ordering food to share, think about what it is doing to your waistline.
People are less aware of the calories they are consuming when they eat from sharing plates, research has found.
Diners do not feel as if they “own” the food and end up “mentally decoupling the calories from their consequences”, a team of Canadian scientists has said. It happens even when people are fully aware of how many calories the food actually contains.
“When we see food on a shared plate, we still understand how many calories we are consuming, but we do not think that those calories will impact our waistline,” Dr Nükhet Taylor, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of marketing at Ryerson University in
