When your team loses, so does your waistline, apparently
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:05 pm
http://globalnews.ca/news/830713/is-roo ... g-you-fat/
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Fans of all the perpetual losing sports teams, take a good look in the mirror. Are you eating your feelings after your team lost the night before?
A new French study suggests that when a National Football League team loses a big game on Sunday, its fans end up binge-eating their sorrows, meanwhile fans of the winning team take up healthy eating habits the next day.
The trend was the same when the researchers studied French soccer fans.
“We show that defeats by your favourite football or soccer team make you eat more and less healthy food, especially if they were narrow, unexpected and against an opponent of the same strength,” lead author Dr. Pierre Chandon wrote on his website.
“The flip side is that victories make us eat slightly better.”