In a multi-cultural country such as India, food is considered sacred and wasting away even a single morsel is adjudged irreverence. “Clean your plate before you get up” has been a practice that has been ingrained from our childhood to make sure we get adequate nourishment during our growing years and more importantly, to ensure that no food gets wasted. While our parents had our best interests on their mind, growing up, it can give way to unhealthy eating habits, disruption of body’s hunger-fullness mechanism, paving the way to weight gain and obesity-related diseases. It also does not help that a majority of us are eating out of big 10 and 12 inch plates. A tendency to finish up all the food that’s there on the plate even after the hunger has been satiated is called the “clean plate syndrome” and if you have a propensity to do the same, welcome, you are now in the “Clean Plate Club.” As we have mentioned earlier, clean plate syndrome can lead to overeating. The concept to continue eating even after you have reached satiety is not a good eating practice because it leads to weight gain and prevents you from losing weight. If you belong to the “clean plate club,” then the first step towards weight loss would be to quit the club. In this post, we have listed down 10 ways to quit the clean plate club for once and all.
What is Clean Plate Syndrome"
The clean plate syndrome is to consume all that food that’s ...