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🗓️ 8 June 2016
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcot.co.j.j.p. That's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.1 | You ever order a drink and feel stiff on the poor? |
0:42.3 | Well, before you bother your bartender, take a closer look at the size of your glass. |
0:46.9 | So people will generally perceive there to be less in larger containers than smaller ones. |
0:54.5 | Teresa Marteau, a behavioral scientist at the University of Cambridge in England. |
0:59.2 | She and her colleagues had analyzed how larger portions and larger plates lure us into eating more |
1:04.1 | food, and they wondered, could the same be true for alcohol? |
1:08.7 | So the researchers convinced the staff at a local bar to run an experiment. |
1:12.8 | Every two weeks, for four months, they'd rotate the bar's wine glasses, from the standard |
1:17.3 | 300-millimeter size to either slightly larger, 370 milliliters, or slightly smaller, 250-millimeter. |
1:26.4 | And see how the size of the glass affected patrons' drinking habits, |
1:30.2 | even though the poor, the volume of alcoholic beverage, was unchanged. |
1:34.9 | Turns out, serving wine in smaller glasses had no measurable effect. |
1:39.6 | But the large glasses, they boosted wine sales 10%, |
1:43.3 | even after controlling for day of the week, |
1:45.8 | temperature, holidays, and so on. The reason, she says, when the wine, the same volume is being |
1:52.0 | served in the larger glass, that people are probably perceiving that they've got less in there. |
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