There’s no better time to begin
implementing healthy habits like the New Year, it’s 365 days of new
possibilities. Now that it’s 2016, many
of us have already started following through on our resolutions to eat
healthier and exercise more by avoiding junk food and sweating it out at the
gym. However, before you become too
enthusiastic with all the food at the health food store, there are a few things
you should know.
A recent study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer
Research found that if we believe a food is healthy, we eat more of it. It makes sense, right? We can easily justify eating a couple
handfuls of granola versus a couple handfuls of potato chips.
The cookie experiment mentioned in
the study had participants consume either a cookie with packaging presenting it
as healthy or a cookie with notably unhealthy packaging. Those who ate the healthy cookie experienced
more hunger after consumption than those who ate the regular cookie. In fact, the study coauthor Jacob Suher notes
that the findings support the “healthy equals less filling” theory. This simply means that we eat healthy foods
in larger amounts because they are perceived to be less filling than other
unhealthy foods.
Bottom line, it’s probably not the
best idea to rely on the packaging to tell you if a food is “healthy” or
“unhealthy”. Today, there are so many
healthy buzzwords thrown around like organic, non-GMO, gluten free, allergen
free, etc., that labels can quickly go from informative to misleading. Remember, companies want their products to
sell and will do just about anything to get you to buy them. Use your best judgment and if necessary, read
the ingredient list.
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