Science of Snacks: Thinking Makes You Hungry

Why not? Mental work can be as tiring as physical labor, so would the appetite not also be stimulated by it? But that's merely anecdotal evidence...now there's a study to confirm it!

The problem with studies like this is they treat humans as machines - input x generates output y because of additional variable input z. They do not take into account the additional "programming" we may have received that cannot be measured. We have a bad habit in this day of plenty to treat food, especially high caloric content foods, as a reward, not a necessity. "The boy did good, give him a big lollipop." The group that did the hardest (most boring/most effort required) perceived task may have eaten more as a reward to themselves for a task completed, not from a drive created by low glycemic levels. Let's run that study again with just carrots and celery as the food choice and see what happens.

Quite so - I am a man, not a machine. Still, ply me with goodies, and see if I don't perform as expected!

Now I know why I am always hungry....

I think I am hungry - therefore I am.

Think healthy snacks - I yam what I yam!

Yes, and they say "you are what you eat", but don't ever try to eat what you are, or they'll send you to jail.

ROFLMSAO!!! (no fricassee à la Dahmer for me)

They say fish is brain food, but fish are pretty dumb from what I've seen. And tuna laced with mercury would be anti-brain food...

I thought this was a self-evident truth, and would not have required special studies.

Anyway, one may make a guess from the behaviour of 14 Canadian Students, but far from an announcement or proper statistical evidence, the "study" is far from complete.

On the basis of such a "study" a "researcher" may announce that a careful such "study" over many years has proved the existence of water in the oceans of the world - that's about as useful a "study" as the 14 Canadian Students one.

Kind Regards....