The tiktoker Antonio Gutiérrez has visited a restaurant that he himself has classified as ‘the paradise of fat people’. During his visit to the premises, which is a free buffet, the content creator has taken the opportunity to show the many dishes to choose from when sitting down to eat. “Look at spaghetti, sausages… and what my nephew likes the most, pizzas.”
Both the tiktoker and his nephew have launched into the pizza ‘section’, trying them standing up before returning to the table: “You don’t wait to get a plate, do you, fat man?” Gutiérrez tells his companion in a comical tone, who responds by coughing in surprise that the pizza in question has onions. This pressure to try everything that is put before us has a biological explanation, which we will tell you about below.
According to a study published by the journal Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, the mind can override the physical limits of the stomach so that there is much more space for food, being one of the most common reactions of our body when exposed to visual and olfactory stimuli related to food.
Andrea Arroyo, psychologist and dietitian-nutritionist, researcher in food behavior and founding member of the TCA Working Group of the College of Psychology of Catalonia explains in Rac1.cat this phenomenon: “Our brain, in a free buffet, suffers many changes, which can be neurobyhemical, neurophysiological, and in which several factors intervene. We are involved. Buffet if we are accompanied by co -workers or family) “
Our eating behavior when we visit a buffet is very complex, since a large number of factors intervene. In addition to the people with whom we go to the buffet, aspects such as our state of mind, the decoration of the premises, our tastes or our health influence.
Arroyo throws in some tips so that our experience at a buffet is as healthy and pleasant as possible: “You always have to eat from freedom and from your own respect, because the way you eat is how you relate to yourself. If you are very rigid, you will not allow yourself to eat some things, and you must be able to eat what you want, but always respecting your body”, affirms the psychologist.
