It turns out that the nature of man affect his eating habits.
For example, neurotic traits explain the excessive love of cheese and chocolate.
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of technology sent out to random addresses three of the questionnaire. The first was devoted to the elucidation of the characteristics of human nature and the habits associated with food, the third food preferences. Scholars interested in the relationship between personality traits of the so-called five-factor model (extraversion, friendliness, conscientiousness, open-mindedness, and neurotic) with food behavior.
We are what we eat
The researchers found many interesting links. For example, “people with low integrity often eat impulsively and lose control at the sight of tasty food,” explains lead author of the study Carmen Keller (Keller Carmen). – Neurotics often eat too much fattening foods, trying to cope with negative emotions”.
Extraversion, which, in contrast to the unfairness and neurosis, usually considered a positive quality, it turns out, can also lead to unhealthy behavior.
Extroverts usually overeat due to external causes, such as pleasant taste or smell, and also due to the fact that often eat unhealthy foods outside the home.
Diet?
Overall, we can conclude that certain personal qualities might be considered as the risk factors that trigger the wrong attitude to food. “These results are another proof in favor of the fact that a person’s attitude to their health, in particular nutrition, is closely linked with such personal characteristics as honesty and neurotic,” says Tim Bugg (Tim Bogg), psychologist at Wayne state University in Michigan. – It is clear that a person’s ability for emotional self-regulation and self-control are not less important to maintain healthy eating than just counting calories or avoiding harmful products.”
In other words, in order to maintain your weight normal, it is very important to understand yourself, to understand how we react to stress at work, or how we are going to lead the party, seeing a mountain of food.
Fiona Johnson Fiona Johnson) from University College London, studying the feeding behavior, adds that personality traits change little throughout life and to overcome their negative impact can be difficult.
