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| Can blue plates affect your appetite? |
Blue sure is a color that calls to feelings like serenity and calmness. But when we come to think of factors that can affect our appetite, colors come last! However, our eating behaviors are affected by the environment surrounding us - especially those colors in our kitchen or dining area. Studies suggest that the color blue shows interesting promise to act on the brain as an appetite suppressant!
But why? Other than its potential to stimulate calming waves in the brain, blue is rarely occurs naturally in food – aside from blueberries and some plums. Consequently, we don’t have an automatic appetite response to blue foods while we are more prone to consume yellow, red and orange colored foods – which could act as appetite stimulants. Moreover, we are more prone to avoid foods that are blue, purple or black because unconsciously, the colors could be signs of spoilage or poison.
Therefore serving your food on blue plates, having blue utensils or covering your table with a blue cloth may help in eating less or reduce your urge to eat more. We sure need further studies to establish a more solid relationship between the effect of the color blue and weight, but for the time being, I think I’ll be experimenting with some blue plates!
Interesting information! I can invest in some blue plates 2, they look good i think
ReplyDeleteya3ne yalla we will loose weight if we get blue plates??
ReplyDeletevery interesting post paty :) nice blog and very informative as always:)
ReplyDeleteAs true and as interesting as the study is, I'm sure the plates will have a minimal effect on your appetite. In my opinion, it takes a lot more than plate colors to reduce your urge to eat especially that the appetite is seriously complex affected by dietary intake, nutrient absorption hormone level, our 5 senses, our weight, physical activity level, percentage body fat - to name a few! But if the blue plate can help, I sure am getting some :p
ReplyDeletemahdoumeh el fekra :)
ReplyDeletecoool! My mom wants to renovate the kitchen,ill throw in the blue idea! Thank you paty
ReplyDeleteVery intersting - I would like to know what you think of using blue plates for people with low vision and cognitive impairment to identify food and make carbs stand out more on the plate because as you rightly say there are very little blue foods so this will help with contrast for a number of cleints however I do NOT want to compromise diet in the older person so I look forward to your thoughts and comments.
ReplyDeleteThere are certainly constantly being written helpful content, for that I give a particular 'many thanks'!
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