①A spoonful of pickles(泡菜) can sometimes make a meal taste better. Recently, a new type of pickle is being discussed; " digital pickles" . It means the videos people watch while eating. Many people think that the videos can make their food more appetizing(引起食欲的).
②The topic received more than 16 million clicks on a website and about 100,000 people took part in the discussion. Many young people in China are kept company by TV shows or short videos. Many believe that their food is more delicious with the " digital pickles" .
③Can this habit influence your diet? According to a research paper published(发表) in 2019, you may eat more without realization. The international research team asked 62 volunteers to follow different eating patterns for four days. The patterns included eating while looking at the mobile phone and eating without distraction(干扰). The team discovered that eating with distraction increased caloric ingestion(热量摄入) by about 15%.
④To explore the reason, the team also invited two groups of people: one group ate while listening to an audio clip(音频片段) about another person eating; the other listened to a clip that helped them imagine themselves eating. At last, the second group ate less because they focused on their food more.
⑤This result works not only for eating meals but also for other tasks which need a lot of patience and skills as well. A research team invited 120 volunteers to do different tasks while providing them with drinks and snacks. When they focused on their tasks and their attention was distracted, they were less likely to tell how full they felt and ate more than they expected.