An easy new way to say no to junk food
People who thought about this while fasting made healthier food choices in a recent study.
Thinking about your health before picking a food may make you more likely to make a healthy choice even if you don’t think it’s tasty, a new study shows.
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology conducted a brain-imaging experiment with 33 adult participants who had fasted for at least three hours. While lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, each participant was shown images of 180 different food items, varying from chips and candy bars to apples and broccoli.
The participants, none of whom were following a specific diet or trying to lose weight, were given three seconds to respond to each image with a decision about whether or not they’d want to eat the food after the experiment was over.
