Eating in front of your PC makes you fat

EATING IN FRONT of your computer is likely to make you fat, according to a small study conducted by the University of Bristol.

Jeffrey Brunstrom of the University of Bristol in the UK told Reuters Health that eating lunch parked in front of a computer boosts a person's appetite for dessert.

In a study of 44 hungry men and women, researchers found that those who ate lunch while playing a computer game ended up eating more cookies 30 minutes later than those who'd had their lunch without distractions.

Apparently the problem was that the computer users had a fuzzier memory of their lunch and felt less full afterwards. The study suggests that distractions like computers and TV muddy our memories of mealtime, which in turn may have real effects on appetite.

Brunstrom said that memory of recent meals influences the amount of food that we eat later.

The study seems to back up the idea that you should spend a lot of time being aware of what you eat. Some Buddhist groups insist that you should be incredibily aware of what you are eating when you eat.

"When our memory is poor," he said, "then at a subsequent meal we tend to select and consume a greater amount of food." µ