Certain Food Words May Interact With Stress, Genetics To Trigger Unhealthy Eating, Studies Say.

reports that two studies presented this week at Obesity Week suggest that “certain food words can interact with stress and genetics to trigger unhealthy eating.” In one study of participants “whose brain activity was monitored while they looked at words describing high- and low-calorie foods,” participants who were obese had a higher likelihood of wanting high-calorie foods, particularly when under stress. The other study found an association “between responses to food words and obesity risk in teens with genetic variants that increase the risk of obesity.” http://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/obesity-health-news-505/don-t-even-talk-about-it-food-words-can-make-you-overeat-704936.html