Graehm Gray: Eating Healthy Foods Makes Us Hungrier!
I spend a lot of time trying to tell my daughter and her friends the benefits of eating healthy. I do this when we eat at home as well as when we go out to a restaurant. Sometimes, I think that I must sound like a broken record. “What about a salad,” I spout out, when I hear the chicken parmigiana or pizza being ordered. “Try the salmon, have some walnuts, what about blueberries, forget the soda, do you really want ice cream?” “Do you know how many calories is in that whatever you call it?” Yes, I am an ogre. I admit it. But I do it because I believe in eating healthy and also so my daughter will learn and eat healthy as well. Well that comes to my article of the week-which comes to us from Ayelet Fishback, and Stacey R. Finkelstein of the University of Chicago- “When Healthy Food Makes You Hungry,” and published on line in the Journal of Consumer Research. These authors examined healthy foods in the context of personal choice and freedom, commitment to a goal or target and “forced or external control” and the effect on appetite afterwards. To do this they looked at three groups of people: those given an item to eat labeled as “healthy foods”; the second group given the same exact item labeled as “tasty foods” and the ...
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