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Article: Good mood food Eat snacks, yet lose weight? Gabrielle Fagan discovers a new diet which claims to exploit a feel-good factor
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2007
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Eat snacks, yet lose weight? Gabrielle Fagan discovers a new diet
which claims to exploit a feel-good factor
Are you craving sweets and bingeing on starchy, fattening foods to
cheer you through cold, dull winter days despite all those
resolutions to lead a healthier lifestyle?
Well take yourself off the guilt rack, it's not your fault. And
even better news: you can eat your way to happiness and lose weight.
According to American scientist Judith Wurtman, we need to snack
on the very foods regarded as the dieter's enemy - carbohydrates
like pasta, bread and potatoes - to feel good and get slimmer.
She explains: "We need carbs to produce good levels of serotonin,
a mood-enhancing chemical ...
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