A study published last month found that if you are the kind of person who lets your mood affect your eating – that’s about 75 per cent of us – you are likely to eat more calories when you are happy than when you are down.
In experiments carried out by psychologists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, 87 students were shown clips from films or TV shows in order to evoke a positive, neutral or bad mood.
Straight after viewing the clips, they were offered crisps and chocolates, then researchers measured their calorie intake after each scene.
Students classed as emotional eaters by earlier psychological tests scoffed more after watching the happy clips than the negative one.
I – Word Understanding
Mood – emotion
Emotional Eaters – a person likes to eat more when a person is happy.
Scoffed – Made fun of
II – Have your say
1. Have you experienced that whenever you were stressed, your appetite vanishes?Or either you were quenched for dairy milk or creamy liquid whenever you feel sadness and loneliness?
2. Life is short. Live in it and eat the cheesecake.When a person is happy, most likely the the food personality changes,instead of checking every items of food, such as price and ingredients.Have you ever been concious of your spending and eating behavior whenever you are happy?
3. When we’re relaxed and happy, we don’t obsess about calories. We shrug off cultural ideas of what we
should or shouldn’t eat, what we should or shouldn’t weigh, and we eat because it’s a great source of pleasure.’
117 Surprising new research reveals that being HAPPY makes you FAT
