(Thursday, may 5, HealthDay News) - see overweight people may cause unhealthy food choices and eat more of them, unless you consciously focus on your health goals, according to new research.
In one experiment, people walking through a lobby were invited to participate in a quick survey that included pictures of a person overweight, normal-weight person or a lamp. Please complete the survey, participants were informed to help themselves to a bowl of candy.
Those who have seen the photo of a person as overweight took more candy that those who have seen the other two photos, researchers have discovered.
The study was recently published online in the Journal of Consumer Research.
In another experiment, people who are invited to participate in a tasting of cookie ate twice as many cookies or candy after seeing someone who is overweight. This occurred even among people who wanted to maintain a healthy weight and knew that cookies and candies can cause weight problems.
"Seeing someone overweight led to a temporary decrease in a person felt commitment to its goal of health," study authors Margaret c. Campbell, of Leeds School of Business and Gina s. Mohr, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, said in a press release of the newspaper.""
However, researchers have discovered that two main factors helped people resist eating when they saw people overweight: reflection on their health objectives and be recalled the link between unhealthy food and take the weight.
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