Can "Diet Glasses" Help You Lose Weight?
feeding tube diet to lose weight before the big day, and now scientists are creating special glasses that could help people shed some pounds.
According to the New York Daily News, Japanese news website Yomiuri Shinbun reports that Japanese scientists are experimenting with "diet glasses." The glasses magnify food so bites look larger. One of the scientists behind the study, Michitaka Hirose, explained that the glasses help you feel fuller by making your food look bigger.
Just how do these magnifying glasses work? A camera system is built inside the glasses. As you bring food closer to your mouth, the camera takes a photograph of the food, processes the photo, and ultimately replays it back through the glasses. The difference between the photograph and the food, however, is that in the photo the food appears much larger.
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The hand of the person wearing the glasses is kept the same size, so only the food appears larger, tricking the glasses wearers into thinking they are eating more than they actually are. The participants in the study were 12 men and women between ages 20 and 30 who were asked to eat as many cookies as they wanted. They were instructed to stop eating only when they felt satiated. The study reported that the participants who wore the glasses ate 9.3% less food than those who ate the cookies glasses-free.
What you think about "diet glasses?" Would you wear glasses if they helped you eat less?