The Side Effect of Healthy Food (Part 2)
U.S. researchers conducted a series of experiments. In the first of them all the volunteers who were college students, tested the same protein bar.
However, the scientists said half of them that this bar was a healthy food, while the other half of participants heard the same food was “healthy.”
A while later, young people who ate the bar “healthy” were more hungry than the volunteers who ate this meal, thinking it was very rich.
A third group of volunteers did not eat the bar but the researchers asked them to inspect it. Later, it turned out that these students have the same hunger that participants who had taken the bar, thinking it was healthy.
Seeing these results, scientists concluded that eating thinking that generates healthy food is so hungry as not eating anything.
The second experiment followed the guidelines of the first, which means that the volunteers ate a piece of bread described as healthy and delicious. But to measure hunger, the scientists counted the number of pretzels that participants ate a little later. Those who had eaten the bread caught fewer considered delicious pretzels.
“One of the challenges of losing weight is that people tend to compensate for their overeating partial successes, and end up gaining more and more weight,” said Fishbach.