It seems to be saying that the extent to which your left posterior amygdala is acitivated, is your ‘portion control’.

It’s really not fair, I think. And it’s unbelievable the amount of fights we have over where to eat.

As for mentioning the article, you’re right, no one asked about it, I mentioned it because I thought it might interest people who found the article in the OP interesting. I wasn’t trying to bring it to the attention of people who already knew about it, that would be silly. Clearly people who have already, recently, done extensive research into the matter would already know about it, but I was unaware that it was common knowladge, since I had only heard about it in connection to the Ignobels, which is hardly mainstream. I was just trying to point out something I thought a few people who read this might find interesting and not have seen. I don’t see what you could object to there, so I’m a bit confused.
As for the offer to track down the article, it wasn’t an offer to hand anyone a conclusion, it was an offer to look up the citation for the article so that interested people could find it more easily that trying to Google it based on my general description, which I didn’t have the time to do when I made the first comment. Again, I don’t see what the problem would be there. I didn’t mean to be offensive, and I’d love to know exactly what I said that seems to have you upset, so that I can avoid it in the future. (Unless of course, you’re exaggerating for effect again?)

Emily. Don’t be patronizing. It’s obnoxious. There’s this thing called “hyperbole for effect”. Look it up.

“I can try to look up the study if you’re interested, it won an Ignobel prize this fall. :)”

Those of us that far along in having analyzed portion control have probably already read that study and come to our own conclusions and don’t need you to do it for us. Plus, I don’t recall anyone asking.
*kthx*

Anyhow, I don’t know whether that’s true or not but it’s also something that might be worth considering. I mean, what if their stomachs were just bigger?

Anyway, I don’t think it’s any big secret that portion control is the thing. And mindful eating. It’s too easy these days to just go nuts eating crap without even thinking about it.

I’m pretty sure even if they develop a brain surgery that addresses this avenue of weight loss it will be elective. Honestly, sometimes some of you sound like you’re about two comments away from getting all Ipcress File about everyone who studies weight. Not everything is an anti-fatty conspiracy.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that there was another study along the lines of portion control (although not related to weight loss specifically) showing that most people will continue to eat soup until the bowl is empty, regardless of the actual volume of soup consumed. They used a self refilling bowl and found that people would eat liters of soup without reporting being full as long as there was still soup in the bowl. This seems to indicate that most of the people in the study were using external factors to determine how much to eat, rather than paying attention to signals from their body. I can try to look up the study if you’re interested, it won an Ignobel prize this fall. :)