Do you want to lose a few pounds?
Then you might like the following tip: All you have to do is choose the right piece of music.
FDH, fasting two days a week * or doing lots of exercise: everyone has their own recipe for maintaining weight or shedding a few pounds.
But not only sport and nutrition influence body weight.
Danish researchers have looked at the question of how music affects our eating behavior.
Her conclusion:
the right music could act like a slimmer
.
According to the thesis of Danish researchers, the environment influences the pace of eating.
If you observe people in the pedestrian zone eating a sausage roll surrounded by many people and compare this sight with a couple feasting in the dim light of a restaurant, you would like to agree.
But the felt perception needs to be substantiated with studies in order to be considered a fact.
Researchers at Aarhus University looked into the effect of music on eating behavior
- and came to amazing results.
In a study with 300 participants, the scientists came to the conclusion that music can accelerate or slow down the pace of eating - although eating slowly is beneficial for a diet because it makes you feel full more quickly.
In the experiment, the study participants were instructed to assess the taste of different chocolates while listening to different pieces of music through headphones.
What the test subjects did not know:
The researchers were not interested in the taste of the sweet, but in the influence of music on eating behavior
.
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eat slowly with slow music
The subjects either got to hear a version of the piano piece "Forskningens Døgn" (https://soundcloud.com/signelundmathiesen/sets/forskningens-dogn) or no background music was played.
It was noticeable that the chocolate was eaten the fastest when there was no music to be heard.
The slow piece of music with a tempo of 45 beats per minute, the individual notes of which were connected to one another (legato), on the other hand, meant that the chocolate was eaten slowly
.
The subjects ate around ten percent longer with slow lego music compared to the faster music variant with 180 beats per minute.
"Music could be used to influence the pace of eating and contribute to healthier eating behavior," quotes the portal Wissenschaft Aktuell, citing Signe Lund Mathiesen from Aarhus University as head of the study.
Slow music could result in the rhythm of chewing adapting to the beat of the music
, according to the researchers.
This could cause people to consume fewer calories, which in turn affects weight.
However, it still has to be checked whether background music could actually help people not only eat more slowly, but also less.
(jg)
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