r6250 梅林专用固件7.2:什么影响节食？盘子大小和颜色对比！

当我们狼吞虎咽喜欢的食物时，分量越大就越诱人 -- 看到的越多，我们就越有埋头吃完的欲望。

But new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that plate and table color matter too when it comes to the amount a person eats at a given sitting.

但在消费者研究期刊刊登的新研究指出，同样的环境中，盘子的大小和餐桌的颜色也和吃入食物的分量有关系。

Many diet experts recommend that people looking to lose weight should replace their dinner plates with appetizer-sized plates, which will help them decrease their portion size.  But results from five different studies conducted by researchers suggest that both size and the contrast in the color of foods to the plate influence how much a person eats.

很多节食专家建议想要减肥的人应该将餐盘换成开胃菜盘子，这有助他们减少饭量。但是研究人员进行的五个不同研究的结果显示，盘子颜色与食物颜色的对比和盘子大小都会影响饭量。

The researchers based their studies on an optical illusion theory described by the 19th century philosopher Franz Delboeuf. Delboeuf observed that if two circles the same size were placed inside two other circles that were different sizes, the same-sized inner circles would also seem to be different sizes.

研究人员是以19世纪哲学家Franz Delboeuf描述的视觉错觉理论为基础进行研究的。Delboeuf 观察到如果将两个同样大小的圆分别放在另外两个不同大小的圆里面，两个同样的圆看起来大小会不一样。

The studies involved nearly 200 participants, ages 18 to 39, who were served different-sized plates filled with food. Those who were given larger plates filled their plates with more food than those with smaller plates. Those who were served food on tables with a higher color contrast between the plates and the tablecloth also ate more than those who were served the same amount of food without a noticeable contrast.

这些研究有将近200名18到39岁的参与者。给他们端上不同大小的盘子，里面装满了食物。那些拿到大盘子的人装了比拿到小盘子的人更多的食物。那些在盘子和桌布颜色对比强烈的餐桌吃饭的人，比有同样分量食物但颜色对比不明显的人吃得更多。

“Someone who owns a larger dinnerware in different colors may want to choose the color that highly contrasts with the food he is serving to minimize overserving biases,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

“拥有包含不同颜色餐具的大套餐具的人，也许会想要选择与食物颜色对比强烈的颜色的餐具来减少超额提供食物的印象。”研究人员在论文写道。

Removing the contrast eliminated the illusion of an outside circle that, based on Delbeouf’s theory, would make the plate seem fuller. Just because those with smaller plates and less color contrast ate less, they still seemed to feel satisfied, the researchers said.

根据Delbeouf的理论，移除颜色对比会让人摆脱类似外面圆圈给人的错觉，从而令盘子看起来更满。研究者说，拿到稍小的和颜色对比不明显的餐具的试验者吃得较少，然而他们仍然会觉得满足。

“It could simply lead consumers to satisfy their hunger while unknowingly eating less,” the researchers wrote. “It may be easier to change our personal environments than to change our minds.”

“这种错觉会让消费者满足自己的饥饿感，却不会意识到其实吃少了，”研究者写道。“改变个人环境也许比改变我们的心意更容易。”