You know what an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet menu is, don’t you? The name should convey, but if you don’t, let me tell you that it’s a Chinese buffet style where you pay a fixed amount of money and eat to your heart’s content. There lies the catch. This style of eating gives adequate freedom to the eater to reveal his/her eating behavior. A trained eye like that of behavioral scientist Dr. Brian Wansink and his team, by observing you, can tell if you are a glutton or not. Till now, not surprisingly though, people hypothesized that people with large body mass indices showed greediness for food. Now scientists have proved this hypothesis by observing people both in the laboratory and in the real world.

If you are plump, crazy about food and believe in devouring to your maximum limit at the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet you most probably would like to use a big plate, will like to face the buffet table and won’t like to take your eyes off it at any cost, would like to eat with chopsticks in place of forks; would like to first check out the menu carefully before taking your pick; and use a napkin on the lap. The ones with low BMI (Body Mass Index) or in other words the thin ones tended to leave more food in their plates, and chewed more than the ones with high BMI.

Try to find out the correlation at the next all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet yourself!

Information source: Nature

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