'Diet glasses' fool wearers into eating less

dude!! that is awesome! i noticed that they say they fool your sense of smell but, but do they even fool your tastebuds at all? if so thats pretty crazy. would love to try it!

Do you think people would notice if I wore them in a restuaraunt?

One trick being used by people who want to diet is to use smaller plates. The same amount of food on a smaller plate looks bigger and they are satisfied. Progressively smaller plates and viola! weight loss. Or you can try these glasses. Just don't take them off in the middle of your McDonald's double cheeseburger.

Letter to the researchers, pls make it so it shows centipede and caterpillars I'd def lose weight.

I think Professor Michitaka Hirose needs to get out more.

@Guza,

Your sense of smell is actually the most influential sense in determining the flavor of what you eat. I remember a jr. high school science class experiment where our eyes where blinded we where told to identify the food that we would get. We were given a piece of raw potato, while the teacher held a piece of pear under our nose. All students identified the potato as pear.

All that being said, I do not understand the purpose of this function in the device. The strawberry or chocolate flavor of the cracker is not what makes you fat. And to be able to trick the mind the plain cracker would still have to have the same level of sweetness as the imagined food. So this won't save you any calories.

Modifying the perceived size, probably is more important here. Although I do think Azusa Suzie's idea would probably be the most effective.

Personally, what I would like is something that can trick my brain into believing water is beer!

I remember a jr. high school science class experiment where our eyes were blinded....

Wow. That was one rough school you went to, SquidBert :)

@lucabrasi

Wow. That was one rough school you went to, SquidBert :)

LOL, You have no Idea! But that should of-course be blindfolded

Next app for Google Glasses.

Wife: Honey, do these make me look fat?

Husband: Hang on..(puts on goggles) NO! Not at all!!

In experiments, volunteers consumed nearly 10% less when the biscuits they were eating appeared 50% bigger. They ate 15% more when cookies were manipulated to look two-thirds of their real size.

Sorry for being all scientific about this, but an apparent cookie size of 150% results in 90% of regular consumption. Net theoretical consumption therefore is 135%. An apparent cookie size of of 66.7% results in 115% of regular consumption. Net theoretical consumption is therefore 76.7%.

... therefore what they're suggesting is if manufacturers merely changed the size of cookies to two thirds of their current size people would consume 23.3% less cookies (per mass)?

And this wouldn't require any ridiculous glasses or anything, just manufacturers making cookies a little smaller (two thirds of size) in slightly larger packets (115% of current pack size).

The above observation on increased portion sizes seems to explain the obesity problem in the U.S., where portion sizes are much larger, as compared with less obesity in Japan, where portion sizes are smaller.

"weak-willed dieters"

I see them and weak-willed smokers everywhere.

In experiments, volunteers consumed nearly 10% less when the biscuits they were eating appeared 50% bigger.

So after a training with the glasses, they stop wearing them and they get the habit to order food 50% bigger, and to eat 40% more than before ? Superb !

Personally, what I would like is something that can trick my brain into believing water is beer!

I thought that was the effect of beer if you drunk lots of it...

i hope they make goggles that make women look younger... and men less bald

What is he really watching hmmm

A fool and their money...

I wear glasses for reading and they somewhat magnify things as they have done for years but my waistline continues to increase even though I have slowly increased the strength of my glasses. Another foolish gimmick.... reaching for straws. I would not invest in Michitaka's company anytime soon.

Presumably these glasses have a rose-tint, and that really does look like a nostalgic Big Stuf or Triple Stuf Oreo...

Like the obese don't have enough issues in daily life without being recommended VR goggles. And people wonder why science gets badmouthed in favour of irrational prejudices.

I have had many times with Beer Goggles! Makes the overweight girls look cute

An interesting but impractical idea/device. Perhaps if manufactures would increase the size of a cookie with something like fiber which is almost zero calories and good for your digestive system it should have the same effect. But the trouble with that idea is that at least in the U.S. manufactures automatically charge extra for food that is good for you.

A logitec web camera ducked taped to a pair of sunglasses?