Eat What You Watch

Genre seems to affect appetite

(HealthDayNews) -- If you're trying to diet, here's another angle you ought to know about.

According to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, researchers at the University of Health Sciences at Chicago Medical School found 91 women, all of whom were trying to stick to diets, and showed them a travel movie, a comedy or a horror movie. Then they all went to a buffet:

  • The women who saw the travel movie ate properly, sticking to their diets.
  • The women who saw the comedy ate a bit more than they were supposed to.
  • The women who saw the horror movie ate the most.

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