A computer game will help to lose weight.
New computer game may help some people take control cravings for unhealthy food.
This is stated in the small study of Exeter University.
During the game the participants don’t need to click on certain image of food, such as cookies and chocolate.
Study participants lost a little weight and six months after its completion consumed significantly fewer calories than before it”, say scientists.
People played for 10 minutes, four times a week. In the experiment, the results of which were published in the journal Appetite, involved 44 adults.
The majority of participants were overweight, and told that before the experiment ate high-calorie chips, cookies, cakes and chocolates at least three times a week.
Brain training
The game, which was developed by psychologists at Exeter and Cardiff universities, uses the technique of “brain training” to change the behavior — in this case, to develop the habit to resist the attraction to unhealthy food.
The people ought not to press the button when the screen appeared the image of unhealthy food.
Such training allows players to develop solid Association between unhealthy food and “deterrence”, the researchers say.
The participants ‘ results are compared with the results of the other 44 subjects, who underwent similar training, but without pictures of food.
The data show that the first group week of the experiment lost on average 0.7 kg and consumed 220 calories less than a second.
Food diaries that the participants were experiment the next six months, also showed that addiction to the curb they were fixed.
