We are told that we must monitor exactly how much we eat because
we don't want to mess up our meticulously charted calorie intake
by indulging in even one too many crackers because then our
thighs will explode and our life will be over—or something like
that. Anyway, ever on the hunt for ways to make us feel like
shit about nourishment, science has come up with a new way to
trick ourselves into feeling even worse: Edible stop signs. Oh,
fun! Maybe now we can get pulled over for eating violations too.
This devious concept is the brainchild of a team of researchers
from Cornell University who think that adding "visual markers"
to food might help people get a better sense of how many
servings they're eating and, more specifically, tell them to
stop. That could be as simple as adding something to the
packaging, but for their study they did one better and put the
stop signs inside tubes of Lay's stackable chips—which are
essentially the same thing as the ultimate snack food, Pringles.
The researchers inserted red