According to Brooklyn doctor Edward Podolsky, fast music ratchets up your metabolism and muscular energy, accelerating your heartbeat and elevating your blood pressure. A slow beat does the exact opposite.
What effect does music have on appetite?
Taste is the most obvious sense associated with food, but it is by no means the only sense we engage to enjoy a good meal. In fact, all our senses come into focus when we eat.
A Johns Hopkins study found that music has the ability to influence the speed with which we eat. Slow music slows us down: test subjects listening to slow music downed three mouthfuls of food per minute, as compared to the five mouthfuls diners listening to a fast beat consumed.
Hoteliers and restaurateurs know that taste is only one aspect of a good meal. A recent British survey examined consumer responses over eighteen evenings. Diners were treated to classical music, pop music or no music during their meals. Results showed that people were willing to (and actually did) spend more money on the evenings they ate to the strains of classical music.
The bottom line
Pay attention to how your body reacts to the external stimuli it receives. Sight, sound, smell, touch and taste are all part of the equation
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