Daily HealthBeat TipClean your plate?Dr. Rhee says children who are told to clean their plates learn to do that, and ignore their feelings of being full. "When they're put into an environment where they're constantly being told to ignore their body signals and eat until their plate is empty, they learn to stop listening to their internal hunger or satiety cues and actually follow environmental cues they hear instead." (12 seconds) |
Last revised: June 5, 2006