A recent study discovered that men will eat more food when they dine with their female counterparts, as a way of showing off, than when they are with other men.

 

The study was conducted over a two-week period while researchers observed 150 adults eating lunch at an all-you-can-eat Italian buffet¹.

 

Researchers from Cornell University, who collaborated² with Cornell's Food and Brand Lab for the study, took note of the number of pizza slices and how many bowls of salad each subject consumed.

 

Men who were coupled up with a female, packed their plates with pizza and left the buffet line with their bowls overflowing³ with salad, eating 93 percent more slices and 86 percent more greens than men who ate with just other men.

 

'These findings suggest that men tend to overeat to show off - you can also see this tendency in eating competitions which almost always have mostly male participants,' explains lead author Kevin Kniffin, PhD, of Cornell University in a recent press release.

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