Simply imagining eating treats can keep you from really doing it, study says
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Makes sense to me in a weird kind of way. I know that I'm not hungry after cooking, as the smell alone seems to satisfy it. The mind is a wonderful thing.
Interesting story, but there are spelling errors in this piece: dinning instead of dining; imaging instead of imagining. What happened to proofreading?
Who paid for this bogus research?
This seems pretty consistent with my own experiences. For example, I imagine that I might handle a negative situation by copping a negative attitude myself and doing something aggressive, but when the actually situation arises, I handle it in a non-aggressive and reasonable way. Perhaps the imagining acts as a sort of cathartic?
Maybe- I do that to- go through different scenarios and play-act them out in my head so when the time comes i act more rationally then i might otherwise have. By play-acting what you would normally do in your head- the real thing is less of a temptation in the end.
1. Seriously, FOUR advertising comments? GO AWAY AND GET A JOB! Thanks for the "!" button.
2. I don't believe this. If I want chocolate, I want it. Not to envision it. Envisioning it makes it hard to not have it, then I crave it then I have to go buy something. This is kind of a dumb study, especially when there are other things going on. Who funds this unneccessary crap?
1. They are called bots, dum bass.
2. Chocolate is, after all, just a complex series of nerve signals. If you can trick your brain into thinking it has had this same series of nerve signals, I suppose it might cause habituation, though I'm far from an expert. Your un-witty little one-liner at the end is pretty much something you can say for anything. 2 hundred years ago research into electricity was also seen as useless. More information is always better, and I doubt this study cost much. At all.
Hey Generic - absolutely NO reason to call me a dumbass. I know what they are, I am just annoyed by them and an actual person is generating them. So f*ck off.
These principles are used by hypnotists in a number of behavior management types from performance improvement to fear reduction and habit or anger control. This study aids our understanding of why these well-worn techniques work and how they can be customized for each client.
Even anecdotal techniques, because they are so non-invasive, deserve trials. Nobody argues with success.
That's cool that the guy used it on himself to quit smoking! That was the very best part - lives can actually be improved by that discovery.
I can't believe chocolate and smoking is put in the same "bad"category. Studies aside, I believe food addictions are developing when we are adults, and most of times because some foods(ones that hit your taste buds real hard, and stimulate your pleasure centres) are presented to us as a)more desirable(you have to eat your veggies before you get the dessert), b)bad(you should not be eating this) and c)fattening(you will look undesirable). If we raised our children on "from scratch,no preservatives or additives"food, introducing one by one wonderful (and inexpensive) veggies(without adding processed cheese on top) and grains(with a little butter and sugar on top),they would develop taste for them and crave them. Things like chocolate(as all fermented foods, including hard cheeses), should be a luxury and only used on special occasions. Fill your child's life with meaning of doing, making something, meaning of family,friends,community. Don't live for consuming(it includes food), make your and your child's life meaningful. And,reduce TV ads exposure(for yourself as well as kids). Less TV is a vaccine for developing minds against consumerism,as well as against wanting things that are presented good and desirable,but are just the opposite.
Lol- maybe people just get sick of it- eww, get those chocolates away from me- i just ate a ton of them. Pretty cool though- i may apply it to some things in my life and see how it works :)