Hearing is often called “the forgotten food sense," says Ryan Elder. Elder is an assistant professor of marketing at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management. He says that if people notice the sound the food makes as they eat it, they might eat less. On the other hand, watching loud television or listening to loud music while eating can hide such noises. And this could lead to overeating. For the study, the researchers wanted to test whether the sounds of eating chewing, chomping and crunching had any effect on how much a person ate. During the experiments, the test subjects wore headphones and listened to noise at either a high or low audio level. Then researchers gave them a crunchy snack: pretzels. The study found that subjects who listened to the higher volume noise ate more pretzels than those with the low audio levels. Elder says that when hiding the sounds of eating, like when you watch television or listen to loud music while eating, we take away the sense of hearing. And this may cause you to eat more than you would normally.
Title: Want to Lose Weight? Listen to Yourself Eat
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Listen to Yourself Eat' data-article-id='1392'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5417'>Hearing is often called “the forgotten food sense," says Ryan Elder.</span> <span data-start-time='5417' data-end-time='13813'>Elder is an assistant professor of marketing at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management. </span> <span data-start-time='13813' data-end-time='22000'>He says that if people notice the sound the food makes as they eat it, they might eat less.</span> <span data-start-time='22000' data-end-time='30958'>On the other hand, watching loud television or listening to loud music while eating can hide such noises. </span> <span data-start-time='30958' data-end-time='34188'>And this could lead to overeating.</span> <span data-start-time='34188' data-end-time='47063'>For the study, the researchers wanted to test whether the sounds of eating chewing, chomping and crunching had any effect on how much a person ate.</span> <span data-start-time='47063' data-end-time='59188'>During the experiments, the test subjects wore headphones and listened to noise at either a high or low audio level. </span> <span data-start-time='59188' data-end-time='64604'>Then researchers gave them a crunchy snack: pretzels. </span> <span data-start-time='64604' data-end-time='75646'>The study found that subjects who listened to the higher volume noise ate more pretzels than those with the low audio levels.</span> <span data-start-time='75646' data-end-time='86271'>Elder says that when hiding the sounds of eating, like when you watch television or listen to loud music while eating, we take away the sense of hearing. </span> <span data-start-time='86271' data-end-time='90604'>And this may cause you to eat more than you would normally.</span> </p></div><div 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