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Diet & Nutrition
Study of women finds candy on the desk is candy in the mouth
March 6th, 2006
When it comes to women and candy, out of sight is out of the mouth, a Cornell University researcher finds. Women were found to eat more than twice as many Hershey Kisses when the candy was in clear containers on their desks than when they were in opaque containers on their desks, but fewer when they are six feet away. "Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away," said Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and of Applied Economics at Cornell. The study - one of the...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2006-03-06)
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