On a bad day, your all time favorite food doesn't really have the power to take the blues away, researchers say.
The concept of comfort food is really universal. It helps us, soothes our feelings in times of extreme anxiety or pain by eating. Science will prove us wrong that our intuition of digging ourselves into a gallon of our favorite flavored ice cream, ten pieces of chicken wings, and a box of pizza or burger with fries will actually make us feel better in times of distress.
Pacific Standard reports that a team at the University of Minnesota collected a group of volunteers onto which are very positive that their all time favorite comfort food could raise their moods into a higher level. In the experiment, the participants were shown upsetting and disturbing movie clips known to cause feelings of anger, fear, anxiety, and/or sadness and then were served food either a comfort food of their preference or a granola bar and discovered that subjects that were given with their comfort food didn't raise their moods any quicker afterward than the subjects who were given other foods or no food at all.
Researcher, Heather Scherschel said that usually people can establish a very unhealthy habit of immediately dig themselves with yummy foods when they feel down, may it be your all time favorite comfort food, or a granola bar, or even if you eat nothing, your mood will eventually lift up. Basically, there is no speedy healing process by eating comfort food.
According to the American Psychological Association, they have not found any reason for people to pick comfort foods when they feel down. Discarding excuses for eating high-fat/calorie may help correct people to develop healthier eating habits and start to focus on other food-free Removing an excuse for eating a high-calorie or high-fat food may help people develop and maintain healthier eating habits.
