Is your dinner music making you overeat?
Recent research has shown that our eating behaviour is not only influenced by hunger or by how much food we have on our plate, but external factors play a part too - like the tempo and volume of the music we choose. Shane Cochrane reports
Pitching the right notes: Music and noise level can affect people's enjoyment of what they eat
Shane Cochrane
Why am I so overweight? I've been asking myself this since childhood.
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