Can Looking at Pictures of Food Help Weight Loss ?

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Now here is something very interesting, when we buy food the images on the front of the packaging. Can often make our decisions for us as whether or not we decide to buy the food.

Another example of this is if you walk past a cake shop and the cakes are in the window, it can be all too easy as you walk past to want to buy that cake. Some scientists found in a study that this could work the other way round.

Is it as simple as this? Look at some pictures of cakes but don’t actually eat them. What it highlighted was even though you can have nice glossy attractive pictures of food. In magazines that doesn’t necessarily always make you want to eat it, was the conclusion that they came to.

So could it be possible then all you need to do is, put pictures of cakes that you would normally like to eat in certain places, and this in turn will stop you wanting to eat it.

Surely it’s not as simple as that or could it be? Some Dutch psychologists asked some female students to look at two pictures. One was a flower the other a picture of a cake.

After this they were questioned about healthy eating choices, that they may want to eat later on, when they had asked the question. They then showed them two choices of cakes one was oatmeal which was the healthier option, the other one was a cookie which was the unhealthier of the two.

Of the participants in the study the women that looked at the picture of the cake, their priority of eating was healthier. Whereas the group who looked at the flower, it was less so they were far more likely to eat unhealthier.

One of the reasons the researchers suspected this happened was due to feelings of guilt, so this is why they chose the healthier option of the oatmeal.

One of the researchers said putting pictures of foods that you don’t particular want to eat, like cake for instance may help to strengthen the resolve against what you shouldn’t be eating.

This is quite a groundbreaking piece of research, and just goes to show how other methods of losing weight can help even though we don’t necessarily think that is the case.

So the next time that you go to somebody’s house and there are pictures of chocolate cake everywhere. Then you will know the reason why this is.

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