Les patients sont toujours en quête de remède miracle pour maigrir clac ! d'un coup de baguette magique. Voici une astuce : je vous la donne pour pas cher.... elle peut vous permettre de perdre un peu de poids si vous en avez un peu de trop.

Des chercheurs américains (Carey Morewedge et son équipe) ont démontré que lorsqu'on "pense" au fait de manger, lorsqu'on s'imagine manger un aliment précis (des cacahuètes, ou des m&m's par exemple...), alors, lorsqu'on se retrouve face à l'aliment auquel on a imaginé manger, on en consomme bien moins que si on ne l'avait pas imaginé. 

Ainsi, les aliments qui ont été mangés de façon imaginaire, comptent dans la survenue de la satiété.

Elle est pas belle la vie ?

Et pas cher en plus !

Alors un bon conseil : avant d'aller à table, ou pire, sur un buffet, imaginez-vous manger précisément les aliments que vous aurez en face....

Merci à Michel de Gentile, illustrateur 

Dieters take note : thinking in detail about eating can reduce actual food consumption, according to a study in the December 10, 2010, issue of Science. Imagining an experience is known to evoke the same physiological responses as the real experience, so researchers at Carnegie Mellon University tested whether imagining chowing down could simulate the experience enough to satisfy people’s cravings. Study participants thought about eating a food—M&M’s or cubes of cheese—one morsel at a time and then afterward were offered the same food to eat. Those who imagined eating 30 M&M’s ate half as many candies as those who pictured putting 30 quarters into a laundry machine. The effect was specific to the type of food imagined, with those thinking about eating cheese consuming about half the amount of cheese eaten by those who had thought about eating M&M’s.

Although these findings seem counterintuitive given that the sight of a candy machine can set off an intense craving for chocolate, the key difference is in how people think about food, says , the psychologist who led the study. “When people are normally thinking about eating food, they’re not imagining the actual consumption,” he says. Indeed, when subjects thought about placing 30 M&M’s into a bowl, they ate 1.6 times more than those who only thought about eating them. But when people engaged in the mental imagery that would accompany actual eating, it wore down their desire to eat. Morewedge plans next to explore whether this kind of mental simu­lation can help smokers reduce their craving for cigarettes.