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Part 4: You are going to read an article about how we can stop eating foods that are bad for us. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Can we stop food cravings through imaginary eating?
A study says that imaginary chewing and swallowing can reduce our desire to eat the wrong kind of foods.
Are you fighting an urge to reach for some chocolate right now? Then, let it melt in your mind, not in your mouth. According to recent research, imagining eating a specific food reduces your interest in that food, so you eat less of it.
This reaction to repeated exposure to food – being less interested in something because you've experienced it too much - is called habituation and it's well known to occur while eating. (1) ______________
But the new research is the first to show that habituation can occur solely via the power of the mind. ‘(2) ______________This research suggests that may not be the best strategy,' said study leader Carey Morewedge, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
'If you just think about the food itself- how it tastes, smells, and looks- that will increase your appetite,' he continued . 'This research suggests that it might be better, actually, to force yourself to repeatedly think about tasting, swallowing and chewing the food you want in order to reduce your cravings. What's more, the technique only works with the specific food you've imagined,' he added. (3) ______________
Morewedge and his colleagues conducted five experiments, all of which revealed that people who repeatedly imagined eating bread or cream would eat less of that food than people who pictured themselves eating the food fewer times, eating a different food, or not eating at all. In one experiment, for instance, 51 subjects were divided into three groups. One group was asked to imagine inserting 30 coins into a laundry washing machine and then eating three chocolates. (4) ______________ Another group was asked to imagine inserting three coins into a laundry machine and then eating 30 chocolates. Lastly, a control group imagined just inserting 33 coins into the machine - with no chocolates.
All participants then ate freely from bowls containing the same amount of chocolate each. (5) ______________The results showed that the group that had imagined eating 30 chocolates each ate fewer of the chocolates than both the control group and the group that imagined eating three chocolates.
The study is part of a new area of research looking into the triggers that make us eat more than we actually need, Morewedge noted. (6) ______________ Recent research suggests that psychological factors, such as habituation or the size of a plate, also influence how much a person eats. The new study, Morewedge said, may lead to new behavioural techniques for people looking to eat more healthily, or exert control over other habits.
A. A lot of people who want to stop eating certain foods that they know are bad for them try to avoid thinking about the foods they really want.
B. When they said they had finished, these were taken away and weighed.
C. A tenth bite, for example, is desired less than the first bite, according to the study authors.
D. Indeed, this is what most of us think when faced with foods we really like, but think we shouldn't eat.
E. For instance, visualising yourself eating chocolate wouldn't prevent you from eating lots of cheese.
F. Physical, digestive cues- that full stomach feeling- are only part of what tells us that we've finished a meal.
G. This requires the same motor skills as eating small chocolates from a packet, the study says.
Can we stop food cravings through imaginary eating?
A study says that imaginary chewing and swallowing can reduce our desire to eat the wrong kind of foods.
Are you fighting an urge to reach for some chocolate right now? Then, let it melt in your mind, not in your mouth. According to recent research, imagining eating a specific food reduces your interest in that food, so you eat less of it.
This reaction to repeated exposure to food – being less interested in something because you've experienced it too much - is called habituation and it's well known to occur while eating. (1) ______________
But the new research is the first to show that habituation can occur solely via the power of the mind. ‘(2) ______________This research suggests that may not be the best strategy,' said study leader Carey Morewedge, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
'If you just think about the food itself- how it tastes, smells, and looks- that will increase your appetite,' he continued . 'This research suggests that it might be better, actually, to force yourself to repeatedly think about tasting, swallowing and chewing the food you want in order to reduce your cravings. What's more, the technique only works with the specific food you've imagined,' he added. (3) ______________
Morewedge and his colleagues conducted five experiments, all of which revealed that people who repeatedly imagined eating bread or cream would eat less of that food than people who pictured themselves eating the food fewer times, eating a different food, or not eating at all. In one experiment, for instance, 51 subjects were divided into three groups. One group was asked to imagine inserting 30 coins into a laundry washing machine and then eating three chocolates. (4) ______________ Another group was asked to imagine inserting three coins into a laundry machine and then eating 30 chocolates. Lastly, a control group imagined just inserting 33 coins into the machine - with no chocolates.
All participants then ate freely from bowls containing the same amount of chocolate each. (5) ______________The results showed that the group that had imagined eating 30 chocolates each ate fewer of the chocolates than both the control group and the group that imagined eating three chocolates.
The study is part of a new area of research looking into the triggers that make us eat more than we actually need, Morewedge noted. (6) ______________ Recent research suggests that psychological factors, such as habituation or the size of a plate, also influence how much a person eats. The new study, Morewedge said, may lead to new behavioural techniques for people looking to eat more healthily, or exert control over other habits.
A. A lot of people who want to stop eating certain foods that they know are bad for them try to avoid thinking about the foods they really want.
B. When they said they had finished, these were taken away and weighed.
C. A tenth bite, for example, is desired less than the first bite, according to the study authors.
D. Indeed, this is what most of us think when faced with foods we really like, but think we shouldn't eat.
E. For instance, visualising yourself eating chocolate wouldn't prevent you from eating lots of cheese.
F. Physical, digestive cues- that full stomach feeling- are only part of what tells us that we've finished a meal.
G. This requires the same motor skills as eating small chocolates from a packet, the study says.
