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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2, 655 (1 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0336

Overweight and normal-weight people estimate calorie intake in the same way

Wansink B and Chandon P (2006) Meal size, not body size, explains errors in estimating the calorie content of meals. Ann Intern Med 145: 326–332 Overweight people have been observed to consistently underestimate the calorie content of their meals to a greater extent than normal-weight people do.