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Written by Kirsten Whittaker   
We all love 'girls nights', an evening out without the blokes. They can be such fun, a welcome break from routine for plenty of us. But a report looking at ladies and diet has made some fascinating discoveries.
by KirstenWhittaker


We all love 'girls nights', an evening out without the blokes. They can be such fun, a welcome break from drudge for lots of us. But a study looking at girls and diet has made some fascinating discoveries.

Beyond the laughs and foolishness, you will also be susceptible to eating more than you planned according to a new report appearing online in the journal Appetite that unearths eating alongside a big group of girls encourages everyone to take in more calories.

For men, as you would be expecting, the number or sex of the dining companion made no difference in how much they ate during a meal.

The study involved 469 college men and women who ate at one of three cafeterias at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

The data the researchers collected included which foods a student put in front of them at the table, the calorific content, the sex of the those eating and the dimensions of the groups.

Next Young and her companions looked at what factors may have an impact on the intake of food - the sex of the companions and the scale of the group were both analysed.

The mean calories in men's meals stayed a rock-solid 716 ; while for women the total calories averaged 609.

When girls ate with men, they took in 552 calories, the most important difference in calorie intake was noted in dating eventualities.

When girls ate with another woman, the total calories each consumed jumped to 665.

When two men or two girls ate together they took in about the same number of calories. Girls eating in mixed groups ate less then they did with other ladies.

As the amount of men in the group went up, the calories the women diners ate went down. Except for a bunch of ladies only the subjects would increase the calorie value of the food they consumed when groups were larger.

3 women eating together had each girl eating almost 650 calories, while a meal with four girls brought the total calories consumed to about eight hundred for each.

Though nobody can say for sure exactly why this happens, Young speculates that some social signaling is at work. She points toward earlier studies that have found women who eat less are judged more attractive, as are ladies who are thin over heavier women.

Ladies naturally want to look more attractive, especially if a potential pal was is the table, and this might explain the difference in calorific intake.

In a work that echoes these findings but involved youngsters, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Ph.D. Helper professor of pediatrics found that kids who are overweight eat more in the company of large friends than when around those they do not know.

When eating with a mate the subjects ate a lot more than when eating with somebody they didn't know. But overweight kids who ate with an overweight dining companion, pal or not, ate more than heavier kids who had a standard weight eating partner.

Perhaps by eating with somebody closer to their own weight the youngsters feel they have permission to eat more.

While neither of these studies are suggesting you eat alone, the observations that your companions might influence your selection of food ( and number of calories ) is undeniably good to know.

Particularly if you're attempting to watch your weight.

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