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You'll Eat More Fruits and Vegetables if Somebody Is Paying You, According to Science
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1752" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://money.com/healthy-eating-tips-get-paid/" target="_blank"><strong>You'll Eat More Fruits and Vegetables if Somebody Is Paying You, According to Science - Money</strong></a></p><p></p><p>If your <a href="https://money.com/save-money-new-years-resolutions/" target="_blank">New Year’s resolution</a> is to eat healthier, you might want to hit up an ATM before the ball drops.</p><p> </p><p>New <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105319884620#abstract" target="_blank">research</a> 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.</p><p> </p><p>It’s no secret that <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2013/eating" target="_blank">we tend to gravitate</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>Basically, as she put it in an interview with <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2019/12/13/stressed-try-rewarding-yourself-eating-fruits-and-veggies" target="_blank">the <em>Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine</em></a>, “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?”</p><p> </p><p>The answer, apparently, is yes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1752, member: 1"] [URL='https://money.com/healthy-eating-tips-get-paid/'][B]You'll Eat More Fruits and Vegetables if Somebody Is Paying You, According to Science - Money[/B][/URL] If your [URL='https://money.com/save-money-new-years-resolutions/']New Year’s resolution[/URL] is to eat healthier, you might want to hit up an ATM before the ball drops. New [URL='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105319884620#abstract']research[/URL] 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 [URL='https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2013/eating']we tend to gravitate[/URL] 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 [URL='https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2019/12/13/stressed-try-rewarding-yourself-eating-fruits-and-veggies']the [I]Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine[/I][/URL], “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. [/QUOTE]
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