Monday, February 15, 2016

Messy kitchen Push Snacking Habits Unhealthy Food

A study conducted by researchers at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab saw their patterns of association between environmental factors with a person's attitude towards food choices. In this case the tendency of a person to consume more food when the kitchen of his house a mess.


Study leader Brian Wansink said it was discovered after researchers conduct experiments to 100 female participants. They were divided into two groups and asked to do an assignment to write an essay in-room kitchen which has been supplied complete with snacks in it.

One group of tasks in a cluttered kitchen while the other group tasks in the kitchen more organized. In the kitchen messy desks are not neat, piles of paper everywhere, and laundry piled up.

When participants finish writing an essay is divided into three topics (bad experience, good experience, and neutral), they were then seen eating pattern snack. There are three main snack so attention is cakes, crackers, and carrot.

The result is known participants essay bad experience in a kitchen that berantakkan eat more cake with an average total calories reached 103. While it is still in the same kitchen, participants essay good experience eating a snack with an average total calories 38.

In the group who do the work in the kitchen clean is recorded that they total less eating a snack. In participants who writes essays for example their bad experience on average consume 61 calories while writing a good experience on average consume 50 calories.

According to Wansink said in a report in the journal Environment and Behavior study further proves that the urge someone to make healthy food choices can be influenced by the mindset and also the environment. Thus trying to set one of these factors can also affect the success of a diet program.

"It's easier to spend 5 minutes to clean the kitchen than 24 hours should refrain for not eating a snack," concluded Wansink was quoted as saying by Reuters on Monday (15/02/2016).      

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