Phone in hand — are you eating more than you think?
Eating with a screen on quietly makes your meal bigger — real-life media meals run about 149 kcal more, and your body does not eat less later to make up for it. The honest fix is small: put the phone down for one meal a day so your brain actually notices you ate.
12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Scrolling while eating doesn't change how much you eat.
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Mostly false — with one honest twist. TV clearly makes people eat more, and even more at the next meal, because the meal never got remembered well. For the phone alone, lab tests are less sure about the same meal. But any screen steals your attention from the food, so treat them all the same.
