A professor at Cornell observed differences in behavior between thin people and overweight people at Chinese food buffets and shared the findings.

https://youtu.be/cKEbbTmxYGo?t=20:45s

Apologies for the crappy link formatting- I'm on mobile. Brian Wansink is a professor of marketing at Cornell, and has studied how to get people to eat better by using psychological techniques. I enjoyed watching his whole lecture since his sense of humor is great, but I wanted to link specifically to where he talked about how his team studied differences in behavior between thin people and heavy people at Chinese buffets since it's just 8 minutes of the presentation. At the end of his lecture, he says that his findings are all correlative, not causative. But it certainly can't hurt to employ little tricks at the buffet.

TL;DW- the people's heights were measured by a laser device and their weights were measured by a scale hidden in the floor. "Thin" vs "Heavy" was determined by those measures. The research team looked at hundreds of diners in seven states and coded for 70 different variables. The tips are:

• Eat more slowly. The research found that the average skinny person chewed 15 times per mouthful while the average heavy person chewed 12 times per mouthful.
• Skinny people surveyed the dishes on the buffet, then grabbed a plate. Heavier people grabbed a plate then went down the buffet line without surveying what foods were available.
• skinny people drank more water
• skinny people were more likely to use chopsticks
• skinny people were more likely to use smaller plates
• on average, skinny people sat 16 feet (~5m) further from the buffet than heavier people
• skinny people were three times as likely to face away from the buffet while they sat and ate
• skinny people were also more likely to sit in a booth and put a napkin on their lap
• he didn't say it in the video, but in the study it said that thin people were also more likely to leave food on their plates when they were finished

At the end of the segment, Prof. Wansink mentioned that he gave advice to a buffet owner to help subtly rearrange restaurants so customers take less food. It's a win-win when that happens.

For the nerds, I think this is the link to the actual study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/oby.2008.286 It would seem that the whole article is free to read :)

I hope this helps!

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