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You'll Eat More Fruits and Vegetables if Somebody Is Paying You, According to Science - Money
If your New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier, you might want to hit up an ATM before the ball drops.
New research from the University of Colorado Boulder has found that stressed-out people are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables if offered a cash incentive to do so.
It’s no secret that we tend to gravitate toward unhealthy foods when feeling overwhelmed. So with the help of grad students Casey Gardiner and Sarah Hagerty, psychology and neuroscience professor Angela Bryan set out to determine whether giving a person money could offset that desire to gorge on pizza and potato chips.
Basically, as she put it in an interview with the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, “If you see a carrot less as something like, ‘Ugh, gosh, I have to eat a carrot’ and more, ‘I get paid to eat a carrot,’ does that mitigate the effects of stress on healthy eating?”
The answer, apparently, is yes.
If your New Year’s resolution is to eat healthier, you might want to hit up an ATM before the ball drops.
New research from the University of Colorado Boulder has found that stressed-out people are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables if offered a cash incentive to do so.
It’s no secret that we tend to gravitate toward unhealthy foods when feeling overwhelmed. So with the help of grad students Casey Gardiner and Sarah Hagerty, psychology and neuroscience professor Angela Bryan set out to determine whether giving a person money could offset that desire to gorge on pizza and potato chips.
Basically, as she put it in an interview with the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, “If you see a carrot less as something like, ‘Ugh, gosh, I have to eat a carrot’ and more, ‘I get paid to eat a carrot,’ does that mitigate the effects of stress on healthy eating?”
The answer, apparently, is yes.