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06-20-2017, 04:57 PM
Psychologists devise clever trick to make us eat more veggies
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Turns out if you call beets "dynamite" and sweet potatoes "zesty," people actually want to eat their veggies.
SEE ALSO: Here’s what happens when you cut out just 10% of meat from your diet (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/how-cutting-out-meat-can-change-your-body/)
A new study published last week in JAMA Internal Medicine (http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2630753)from Stanford University's Psychology Department found that rich, descriptive and delicious labels for vegetables makes them a lot more appealing.
The study found that "indulgent" descriptors for vegetables like beets, corn, green beans, zucchini, carrots, and sweet potatoes won over diners at a university cafeteria. We get it: "rich buttery roasted sweet corn" sounds too good to pass over. Especially when compared to just plain-old "corn." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/standford-study-how-to-get-people-to-eat-vegetables/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Turns out if you call beets "dynamite" and sweet potatoes "zesty," people actually want to eat their veggies.
SEE ALSO: Here’s what happens when you cut out just 10% of meat from your diet (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/how-cutting-out-meat-can-change-your-body/)
A new study published last week in JAMA Internal Medicine (http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2630753)from Stanford University's Psychology Department found that rich, descriptive and delicious labels for vegetables makes them a lot more appealing.
The study found that "indulgent" descriptors for vegetables like beets, corn, green beans, zucchini, carrots, and sweet potatoes won over diners at a university cafeteria. We get it: "rich buttery roasted sweet corn" sounds too good to pass over. Especially when compared to just plain-old "corn." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/standford-study-how-to-get-people-to-eat-vegetables/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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