For a long time, I have felt that the repeated advice in Atkins later
books to "Eat Till Satisfied, Not Stuffed" is a non-ignorable part of
the Atkins plan. He did write this about 9 times in his later books.

This brief article allegedly compares the French and American clues and
methods used to stop eating.

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French paradox redux? US vs. French on being full

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/cfb-fpr021508.php

It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as
Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and
pastries they eat?

Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to
stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand,
tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they
have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.

"Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is -- French or
American -- the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop
eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full," said senior
author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and
director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied
Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive director of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and
Promotion until January 2009.

The new study, an analysis of questionnaires from 133 Parisians and 145
Chicagoans about how they decide when to stop eating, is being published
in the journal Obesity and is being presented this later month at an the
Winter Marketing Educators conference.

"Over-relying on external cues to stop eating a meal may prove useful in
offering a partial explanation of why body mass index [a calculation
based on the relationship of weight to height] varies across people and
potentially across cultures," said co-author Collin Payne, a Cornell
postdoctoral researcher. He stressed that further studies should
following up with smoking behavior and socio-economic differences as
well. "Relying on internal cues for meal cessation, rather than on
external cues, may improve eating patterns in the long term.

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Wansink, author of "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think,"
also conducted the study with Pierre Chandon, a marketing professor at
INSEAD, an international business school in France.

Source: Cornell University

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