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Food-mood connection: The sad are twice as likely to eat comfort food
01-31-2007 · EurekAlert!People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by Cornell's Brian Wansink. However, when nutritional information is available, those same sad people curb their hedonistic consumption, but happier people don't.
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