When you’re craving something, rarely is a fresh salad or a low-calorie drink. And when we licking his whiskers for the pleasure he has given us a meal, usually not be something that would come into the category of ‘healthy’. But why does this happen? Why is it that what is healthy is less satisfactory to us? Perhaps it is pure suggestion.
A new study suggests that the stomach shows fewer signs of satisfaction after eating “healthy foods”, regardless of the fat and calories they contain. In contrast, foods that people perceived as indulgent, sinful, produce a greater feeling full and satisfied stomach, even though these are lower in calories. This information is published TIME.com .
For their study, psychologists and Yale, led by Alia Crum, recruited 46 volunteers. These people were told that researchers were testing the body’s response to two milkshakes that were made with variations in nutritional content. In fact, the two shakes were exactly alike, but one of them were described as high in fat and 620 calories, its label said “lenient” and offered “the decadence that you deserve.” The other said to be low in fat and contain only 140 calories said, on the label it read the phrase “guilt-free satisfaction.”
Participants were asked to prove shakes a week apart so they could not have a direct comparison with the experience. In fact, each containing 380 calories smoothie.
Blood samples left to see that levels of ghrelin, a hormone that rises in response to hunger and decreases satiety, “declined rapidly when participants believed they were consuming a sumptuous food. Instead, when they believed they were eating healthy food, ghrelin levels remained stable, which meant that their bodies did not send the appropriate signals of fullness after drinking the shake.
Do you now understand why diets often fail?
According to the researchers, when we believe we will be deprived of something by eating foods low in calories, our stomachs psychologically play against us, making us feel more hungry and less satiety.
Do you notice the great dilemma?
The only way not to fall into this trap of low-calorie food is never peek to read your labels .
