Eating Organic Food Diet Can Lead to Weight Gain
It is only since the beginning of the 20th century that a large number of new synthetic chemicals have become a part of our food supply. Increasingly people are searching for foods that are closer to nature. Unfortunately, new work finds that eating organic food diet actually serves to skew a person's perceptions about food, and not in a good way. We assume these items are lower in calories, so it's fine to indulge. Exercise is also seen as less necessary after eating a so-called "organic" desert. These findings follow through on earlier work that shows food labels do spur misperceptions. Calling a food "low fat" on the label makes buyers think it has fewer calories. Those items labelled as "low cholesterol" are often judged as having less fat. Americans' as a whole have a strong tendency to associate "organic" with healthiness according to experts. Researchers conducted two experiments to see if "organic" labels t...