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 Try this at home, just maybe not too often. (Food Network/AP) 
  
 Food television has been something of a revelation. As Americans cook less and less, they seem compelled to watch people cook more and more. The mouthwatering viewer experience — which features cooking shows and competitions, food travel adventures and other gustatory escapades — has captivated people around the country. 
  
 The Food Network, the genre's most coveted brand, alone gathers an average audience of more than 1 million viewers each night. And it's just one of a growing number of networks that routinely feature series about food and eating. Chefs — some professionally trained, others less formally practiced — are increasingly bringing new, exciting and delicious culinary ideas into living rooms. 
  
 Mostly women watch these shows, often to learn specific cooking skills. But when people watch more of these food shows on television, it turns out they're also gaining more weight, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University. And they're even more likely to gain weight if they also cook. 
  
 "There's a pretty clear interaction between watching these types of shows and cooking less healthy foods," said Lizzy Pope, a professor at the University of Vermont, and one of the study's authors. "People who watch cooking shows are more likely to have a higher BMI [body mass index] than any other group." 
  
 To gauge the effect of cooking shows, Pope and her colleagues surveyed more than 500 women of different heights and weights between the ages of 20 and 35. The participants were chosen randomly and had a range of characteristics. 
  
 In all, the researchers noted 14 different ways in which the participants' cooking habits were influenced, including health Web sites, YouTube, magazines, newspapers, cooking shows, cooking blogs, and dietitians. But no source of inspiration did more to expand waistlines than food television. 
  
 "Watching cooking shows is the only one we found to be associated with a higher body mass index," Pope said. 
  
 There's a chance that what the study uncovered is that people who are less healthy, at least according to their BMI, are more likely to watch cooking shows — the study, after all, stopped short of proving causality. But that's unlikely, according to Pope, who argues that watching these shows is probably leading people to eat less healthily and, as a result, carry a a few extra pounds. 
  
 The reason is largely tied to a phenomenon called social norming, in which people grow to assume that something is normal that shouldn't be. In this case, that something is regularly cooking and eating recipes prepared in a heavier fashion, loaded with butter and other fats. 
  
 There are plenty of examples of shows and chefs that have gone to lengths to encourage healthy eating habits. Jamie Oliver, for one, made a documentary about the unhealthy food schools often serve children. But cooking shows, by and large, feature foods that aren't actually all that healthy (see Paula Deen). Television personalities, meanwhile, are authority figures that shape how viewers model their behavior. If people see a caloric dish being made by a celebrity they revere, they are likely to try to recreate that dish at home, Pope says. 
  
 "Watching chefs prepare indulgent dishes on TV, watching a famous host enjoy over-the-top foods with other people all over the country, or viewing others’ social media food pictures and recipes might suggest a social norm for preparing these types of foods," the study notes. 
  
 The problem, however, isn't so much that people are cooking like the chefs they see on TV, but that they're cooking too often like the chefs they watch labor away in the kitchen. 
  
 "I'm torn, because as a dietitian I want to encourage people to cook at home, but just because you're cooking at home doesn't mean you're cooking healthy things and are going to lose weight," Pope said. "Restaurant quality meals really shouldn't be eaten every day." ||||| Eating And Health 
  
 Do TV Cooking Shows Make Us Fat? 
  
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 If you've ever watched Giada de Laurentiis make gooey chocolate-hazelnut spread or a rich carbonara pasta dish, you may have wondered: How can she cook like this and maintain her slim figure? 
  
 Well, sorry to say, but a new study published in the journal Appetite suggests that many of of us home cooks who watch cooking shows can't pull this off. 
  
 "Our main finding is that it seems that if you watch food television and then actually cook the recipes that you see, you're at risk for having a higher BMI [body mass index]," says study author Lizzy Pope, who's a researcher in nutrition and food science at the University of Vermont. 
  
 Pope, along with colleagues at Cornell University, surveyed about 500 women in their 20s and 30s. The researchers asked a range of questions about the women's cooking habits. And they documented the women's weight and height to calculate their BMIs. 
  
 "In terms of weight, those who watched cooking shows and cooked frequently from scratch had a mean weight of 164 lbs," according to the paper. By comparison, women who watched the shows but didn't cook much from scratch weighed, on average, about 153 pounds. 
  
 That's an 11-pound difference between the "doers" (the women watching and cooking) compared with the "viewers" (the women who watched but didn't cook). 
  
 "Being a doer," Pope says, "may put you at risk for packing on extra pounds." 
  
 This is not the first study to suggest that home cooking can potentially be bad for our waistlines — and perhaps our health. 
  
 As we've reported, a study published in the journal Preventive Medicine found that the more time middle-aged women spent cooking at home, the more likely they were to develop symptoms of metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. 
  
 And these findings challenge the going belief — put forth by advocates such at Michael Pollan — that home cooking, compared to eating out or buying prepared foods, is best. 
  
 But Pope says she doesn't want to turn people off to cooking: "As a dietitian, I want to encourage everyone to [cook at home] as often as possible." 
  
 But she says you've got to be mindful of how and what you cook. And you may not find inspiration for healthy cooking by watching TV cooking shows. 
  
 "If you're just watching Pioneer Woman, or Giada at Home, or Barefoot Contessa — which are great shows that I sometimes watch to relax — they're not necessarily portraying healthy recipes," Pope says. 
  
 Take, for instance, de Laurentiis' chocolate hazelnut pie, which is loaded with butter. 
  
 "Butter in your kitchen is still butter," Pope says. "And it has the same calories as if you ate it in a restaurant meal." 
  
 And, please, we're not trying to pick on de Laurentiis. She's been asked about her rich recipes and her own eating habits. In one interview, she said it's the No. 1 question from fans of her show. 
  
 "And the answer is," de Laurentiis is quoted as saying, "I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation." |||||
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assistant: It might be time to turn off the Food Network: A new study in Appetite suggests TV cooking shows actually make viewers fat. Cornell University researchers surveyed 501 random women between 20 and 35 about their cooking habits, then took height and weight measurements to discover each participant's body mass index, NPR reports. What they found: Women "who watched cooking shows and cooked frequently from scratch," also known as the "doers," weighed an average of 164 pounds. The "viewers," women who watched the shows but didn't usually cook the recipes, weighed an average of 153 pounds—or 11 pounds lighter. "Being a doer may put you at risk for packing on extra pounds" and "for having a higher BMI," study author Lizzy Pope explains. Those who used social media, including Pinterest, to find recipes were also linked to a higher BMI, Smithsonian reports. Other women said dieticians, magazines, cooking blogs, newspapers, health websites, and YouTube influenced their cooking habits, but they weren't associated with a higher BMI, the Washington Post reports. Previous research found the more time women cooked at home, the higher their chance of developing symptoms of metabolic syndrome. But Pope warns that her study and others don't suggest you should just eat out instead: The key is finding healthy recipes, she says, and cooking show recipes are "not necessarily portraying healthy recipes." In fact, they lead viewers to assume that regularly cooking with fatty foods, like butter, is normal. "Restaurant-quality meals really shouldn't be eaten every day," Pope says. "Food show executives and hosts need to realize they are social role models and have a role to play in battling obesity and health care costs." (Read a case for why you should give up three meals a day.)