"My wife and I still eat a bowl of rice, two dishes of vegetables and drink a bowl of soup every day, " says Jiang, 48.

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This weekend also brings the NFL combine, a spectacle of running and jumping and fitness evaluation that pretty much proves that football fans would watch NFL personnel sit at a table and eat a bowl of peas.

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He would pour small amounts of cereal at a time into a bowl, then add the milk and eat quickly.

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"How many cockroaches do you have to find in a bowl of spaghetti" before you won't eat it? he asked.

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They eat to the bottom of the bowl or bag if that seems like a logical meal or portion size, a behavior dubbed "unit bias" by academics.

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Before we join the rest of the sports media in a two-week all-you-can-eat prediction buffet ahead of the upcoming Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants, we've allowed ourselves a moment to look back.

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