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A Prehistoric Foraging Strategy May Be Why We Eat More Around Friends, Study Suggests
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1596" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/prehistoric-foraging-strategy-may-why-we-eat-more-around-friends-study-suggests-1468158" target="_blank"><strong>A Prehistoric Foraging Strategy May Be Why We Eat More Around Friends, Study Suggests - Newsweek</strong></a></p><p></p><p>The amount of food people eat tends to be profoundly influenced by the company they share while taking their meal, and may be linked to evolutionary psychology, a study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham found.</p><p></p><p>The <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/110/4/842/5552759/?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank">study</a>, published in <em>The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</em> on October 4, was based on a meta-analysis of 42 previously conducted studies into the "social facilitation" of food consumption, according to a <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/10/dining-with-friends-and-family.aspx" target="_blank">release from the University of Birmingham</a> in England.</p><p></p><p>The analysis found that a person's meals could be 29 to 48 percent larger when they ate with friends as opposed to when they ate alone, according to <a href="https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/10/28/heres-why-we-eat-more-when-were-with-friends-and-family/" target="_blank">the British Psychological Society</a>. Another study found that a person consumed an average of 23 percent more calories when they ate with company.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1596, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.newsweek.com/prehistoric-foraging-strategy-may-why-we-eat-more-around-friends-study-suggests-1468158'][B]A Prehistoric Foraging Strategy May Be Why We Eat More Around Friends, Study Suggests - Newsweek[/B][/URL] The amount of food people eat tends to be profoundly influenced by the company they share while taking their meal, and may be linked to evolutionary psychology, a study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham found. The [URL='https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/110/4/842/5552759/?redirectedFrom=fulltext']study[/URL], published in [I]The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition[/I] on October 4, was based on a meta-analysis of 42 previously conducted studies into the "social facilitation" of food consumption, according to a [URL='https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/10/dining-with-friends-and-family.aspx']release from the University of Birmingham[/URL] in England. The analysis found that a person's meals could be 29 to 48 percent larger when they ate with friends as opposed to when they ate alone, according to [URL='https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/10/28/heres-why-we-eat-more-when-were-with-friends-and-family/']the British Psychological Society[/URL]. Another study found that a person consumed an average of 23 percent more calories when they ate with company. [/QUOTE]
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